clock off
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[edit]clock off (third-person singular simple present clocks off, present participle clocking off, simple past and past participle clocked off)
- (intransitive, informal) to leave work, especially by recording the leaving time on a machine
- Most of the staff have already clocked off for the night, you should do the same.
- 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