American EnglishAmE informalBEC to record the time that you start or finish work by putting a card into a special machine 打卡上下班
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punch the clock• Bob is glad to have a job where he doesn't have to punch the clock.• Bobbypunched the clock in four other maquilas before she got her current job as a clothesinspector at the Minsa plant.