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• n  (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed
• n  a clerk who keeps track of the hours worked by employees
• n  a measuring instrument or device for keeping time

• WrestleMania's guest referee is Muhammad Ali; the guest ring announcer is Battlin' Billy Martin; the guest timekeeper, manipulating a tiny silver bell that might have come from .
• In less than 15 minutes, a huge blackboard was raised outside the timekeeper's shack: "New World's Record for 50 kilometers172.
• But recently the battered old earth has fallen into disrepute as a timekeeper.

• timer
• timepiece
• horologe

News & Articles

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• Video from Longines and Synaptic Digital: Longines Times Final Leg of Triple Crown at Belmont Park
  WEEHAWKEN, NJ -- Longines, the internationally renowned Swiss watch brand and Official Watch and Timekeeper of the Belmont Stakes culminated its roles as Official Timekeeper and Watch of the Triple Crown ...
  June 10, 2013 - GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Phil Davies in Sportinglife.co.za
  Tykes boss Phil Davies said: "My watch is pretty accurate so I knew what time was left. There was a little bit of confusion apparently. There was something going wrong with the timekeeper - there was confusion over how many minutes were left. It's...
• Bob Knight in San Antonio Express
  When Oklahoma came back and made a really good run at the end, the thing I checked was if we had the same timekeeper we had here a couple of years ago,Knight said. "I was damn glad that had changed."
• Lester R. Brown in AlterNet
  We are crossing natural thresholds that we cannot see and violating deadlines that we do not recognize,says Brown. "These deadlines are set by nature. Nature is the timekeeper, but we cannot see the clock."