time sheetn.
/ˈtʌɪm ʃiːt/, U.S. /ˈtaɪm ˌʃit/ 1. A form used in a workplace for recording the names of employees and the hours they have worked; a similar form used by an individual employee. Later also more generally: any sheet of paper or the like used to record the times of events.
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1849 Bradford Observer 8 Mar. 5/2 Smith prepared and delivered in to Nicholson, monthly, a time sheet: showing the number of men working under him, and the time they had worked.
1894 Postal Rec. June 143/3 He went to work one hour and ten minutes ahead of time and his time sheet only showed seven hours for the day.
1904 A. B. F. Young Compl. Motorist xvi. 320 At a control established in some wayside village..stands a little group of officials with their paraphernalia of papers, stop-watches, reports, and time-sheets.
1919 Theatre Mag. May 270/1 A stage manager must turn in what is called a ‘time sheet’ to the producer, showing the time for each performance during the past week.
1989 C. Caufield Multiple Exposures (1990) ix. 85 A computer calculates exposures by comparing each worker's timesheet with the periodic air readings for the areas in which he worked.
2010 Carlow (Ireland) People (Nexis) 12 Oct. Get the names down early as the time sheet will fill up fast.
2. A timetable on a sheet of paper or card. Chiefly historical in later use.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > timetable or schedule
timesc1410
time bill1810
train indicator1849
time sheet1850
horary1851
timetable1856
schedule1863
horarium1921
sked1929
time frame1946
timeline1948
1850 Hammond's List of London & Provinc. Newspapers 5 (list) Bradshaw's railway time sheet.
1893 Westm. Gaz. 7 July 5/1 An elegantly printed time-sheet had been laid on the table for the use of the Duke and Princess.
1907 Railway Mag. July 37/1 In the museum..is preserved a copy of the original time sheet of that railway, which..is now superseded by a royal 8vo publication of nearly 250 pages.
1975 Trans. London & Middlesex Archæol. Soc. 26 310 This Willesden station..was probably first opened in 1841, for it appears in a railway time-sheet of that year.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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