clock off

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clock off (third-person singular simple present clocks off, present participle clocking off, simple past and past participle clocked off)

  1. (intransitive, informal) to leave work, especially by recording the leaving time on a machine
    • 2022 November 24, T. Brown, “Frenchman wins the 'legal right to be boring at work'”, in Daily Mail Online[1], Associated Newspapers, retrieved 2022-11-27:
      Frenchman wins the 'legal right to be boring at work' after being mocked by his colleagues for not wanting to head out to the pub after clocking off
    Most of the staff have already clocked off for the night, you should do the same.

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