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timekeeper en · NOUN

Etymology

From time + keeper.

Meanings

  1. A device that shows the time; a timepiece.
    • The sailors sail by chronometers that do not lose two or three seconds in a year, ever since [Isaac] Newton explained to Parliament that the way to improve navigation was to get good watches, and to offer public premiums for a better time-keeper than any then in use. 1878 March 30, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Fortune of the Republic. Lecture Delivered at the Old South Church, March 30, 1878, Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Osgood and Company […], published 1878, →OCLC, page 1:
  2. A person who keeps records of the hours of attendance of employees.
  3. A person who records the time elapsed in a sporting event.
  4. The group member who controls the rhythm of the music when a group of musicians play together.
    • There was no consensus among jazz musicians about who was the primary timekeeper in a jazz band; some said the drummers and others said the bassist. 2011, Harris M. Berger, Metal, Rock, and Jazz: Perception and the Phenomenology of Musical Experience, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 152:
  5. (usually, with adjective) A person (or something controlled by a person) that is punctual.
    • As it happens, the Leicester–Beeston train is quite a good timekeeper—it sometimes runs a few minutes early— […] 1961 April, Warren Smith, “The problems of train regulation - a study of operation at Trent”, in Trains Illustrated, page 217:

Forms

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timekeepers Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

timekeeping

Synonyms

clock · timepiece · watch · timer

Translations (7)

hu munkafelügyelő (a person who keeps records of the hours of attendance of employees) · de Zeitnehmer (a person who records the time elapsed in a sporting event) · hu időmérő bíró (a person who records the time elapsed in a sporting event) · sw mtunza muda (a person who records the time elapsed in a sporting event) · es cronometrador (a person who records the time elapsed in a sporting event) · de Zeitnehmerin (a person who records the time elapsed in a sporting event) · bg хронометрист (a person who records the time elapsed in a sporting event)