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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

time-keep en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of timekeep.
    alt of timekeep
    • Ideas on how to improve the process and ideas for other meetings are exchanged at this time and the allocation of roles for the next meeting is made – who will arrange the venue, who will send out the action points typed up, who will time-keep, etc. 2001, Ian McGill, Liz Beaty, Action Learning: A Guide for Professional, Management & Educational Development, page 43:
    • A small unit, such as a platoon, can time-keep and synchronize very well by itself, particularly if the parade path is not too noisy. 1997, Edwin R. Coover, ATM Switches, page 63:
    • Every so often, though, he found a deep need to time-keep, and this worried him. He knew he should not count the days and yet sometimes he did. 2013, Martin Booth, Hiroshima Joe:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
time-keeping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
time-keeps Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
time-kept Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
time-kept Tense=Past lexicographic