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timekeeper
[ tahym-kee-per ]
noun
- an official appointed to time, times, regulate, and record the duration of a sports contest or its component parts, as to give the official time times of a race, assure that a round of boxing is ended exactly on time, times, or announce to football, basketball, hockey, etc., teams the amount of time times left to play.
- a timepiece:
This watch is a good timekeeper.
- a person employed to keep account of the hours of work done by others.
timekeeper
/ ˈ³Ù²¹Éª³¾ËŒ°ì¾±Ë±èÉ™ /
noun
- a person or thing that keeps or records time
- an employee who maintains a record of the hours worked by the other employees
- a device for indicating time; timepiece
- an employee with respect to his or her record of punctuality
a good timekeeper
Derived Forms
- ˈ³Ù¾±³¾±ðËŒ°ì±ð±ð±è¾±²Ô²µ, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³Ù¾±³¾±ðk±ð±ð±èi²Ô²µ noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of timekeeper1
Example Sentences
By undermining the pitcher’s authority on how the innings flow, the timekeeper shortens a game’s duration.
In 1967, the world's timekeepers, an intergovernmental body called the General Conference on Weights and Measures, agreed to define time using atomic clocks, rather than by the Earth's rotation.
On one level, a main timekeeper, head judge and team leader scrutinize footage from the main camera.
Scientists use tiny minerals called zircons as geologic timekeepers.
The effect is that global timekeepers may need to subtract a second from our clocks later than would otherwise have been the case.
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