time-keep

English

Verb

time-keep (third-person singular simple present time-keeps, present participle time-keeping, simple past and past participle time-kept)

1. Alternative form of timekeep
   • 1997, Edwin R. Coover, ATM Switches, page 63:

     A small unit, such as a platoon, can time-keep and synchronize very well by itself, particularly if the parade path is not too noisy.

   • 2001, Ian McGill, Liz Beaty, Action Learning: A Guide for Professional, Management & Educational Development, page 43:

     Ideas on how to improve the process and ideas for other meetings are exchanged at this time and the allocation of roles for the next meeting is made – who will arrange the venue, who will send out the action points typed up, who will time-keep, etc.

   • 2013, Martin Booth, Hiroshima Joe:

     Every so often, though, he found a deep need to time-keep, and this worried him. He knew he should not count the days and yet sometimes he did.

Anagrams

• keep time