bater ponto
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Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “to beat the point”.
Pronunciation
[edit]
Verb
[edit]bater ponto (first-person singular present bato ponto, first-person singular preterite bati ponto, past participle batido ponto)
- (Brazil) (arriving) to clock in (US), clock on (UK), to punch in (US); (leaving) to clock out (US), clock off (UK), to punch out (US) (to enter or leave a workplace by punching a time card)
- Synonym: (Portugal) picar o ponto
Conjugation
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “bater o ponto”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
- “bater ponto”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2024