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单词 knock-off signal
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knock-off signal
1. knock-off time, time to ‘knock off’ or leave off work. Also knock-off signal, knock-off whistle, etc. See sense A. 2.
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society > occupation and work > work > times or periods of work > [noun] > stopping work > stopping time
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leaving-off time1834
quitting time1835
knocking-off1883
shutting-up time1889
knock-off time1899
thirty1929
1899 F. T. Bullen Log of Sea-waif 108 It was ‘knock-off’ time.
1902 Daily Chron. 13 June 6/3 After the ‘knock-off’ signal had been given.
1947 K. Tennant Lost Haven xvi. 249 The knock-off whistle blew at the mill.
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