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clock in collapse: register one's arrival at work

liberty collapse: freedom of choice; "liberty of opinion"; "liberty of worship"; "liberty--perfect liberty--to think or feel or do just as one pleases"; "at liberty to choose whatever occupation one wishes"; personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression

in a bind collapse

lollygag collapse

practiced collapse: skillful after much practice

social convention collapse

jeopardy collapse

accept collapse: tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies"; consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument"; be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal; "The cow accepted the bull"; react favorably to; consider right and proper; "People did not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea of universal health care"; give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution"; receive (a report) officially, as from a committee; receive willingly something given or offered; "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present"; admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member"; be designed to hold or take; "This surface will not take the dye"

motion collapse: the act of changing location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path"; a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility"; a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote; "he made a motion to adjourn"; "she called for the question"; a state of change; "they were in a state of steady motion"

double cross collapse: an act of betrayal; "he gave us the old double cross"; "I could no longer tolerate his impudent double-crossing"; betray by double-dealing

geezer collapse: a man who is (usually) old and/or eccentric

rise above collapse

sentence collapse: a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences"; pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison"

go collapse: a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters; a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else); "it's my go"; "a spell of work"; functioning correctly and ready for action; "all systems are go"; be abolished or discarded; "These ugly billboards have to go!"; "These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge"; be spent; "All my money went for food and rent"; move away from a place into another direction; "Go away before I start to cry"; "The train departs at noon"; follow a procedure or take a course; "We should go farther in this matter"; "She went through a lot of trouble"; "go about the world in a certain manner"; "Messages must go through diplomatic channels"; pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action; "How is it going?"; "The day went well until I got your call"; be or continue to be in a certain condition; "The children went hungry that day"; be awarded; be allotted; "The first prize goes to Mary"; "Her money went on clothes"; lead, extend, or afford access; "This door goes to the basement"; "The road runs South"; be sounded, played, or expressed; "How does this song go again?"; be contained in; "How many times does 18 go into 54?"; be ranked or compare; "This violinist is as good as Juilliard-trained violinists go"

repel collapse: force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack"; cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders"; be repellent to; cause aversion in

forget collapse: be unable to remember; "I'm drawing a blank"; "You are blocking the name of your first wife!"; dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "i tried to bury these unpleasant memories"; leave behind unintentionally; "I forgot my umbrella in the restaurant"; "I left my keys inside the car and locked the doors"; forget to do something; "Don't forget to call the chairman of the board to the meeting!"

wild goose chase collapse

present day collapse

a la mode collapse: with ice cream on top or on the side; "we served the apple pie a la mode"

fair game collapse

bout collapse: a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers); a period of illness; "a bout of fever"; "a bout of depression"

come and go collapse

transcend collapse

sabbatical collapse: a leave usually taken every seventh year; of or relating to sabbatical leave; "sabbatical research project"; of or relating to the Sabbath; "Friday is a sabbatical day for Muslims"

stand up collapse: defend against attack or criticism; "He stood up for his friend"; "She stuck up for the teacher who was accused of harassing the student"; refuse to back down; remain solid under criticism or attack; resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.; "Her shoes won't hold up"; "This theory won't hold water"

bygone collapse: past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones"; well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era"

contemporaneous collapse: occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart"

new collapse: unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the job"; having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of unexampled prosperity"; (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn"; in use after medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties"; not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World"; unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new"

vintage collapse: the oldness of wines; a season's yield of wine from a vineyard

interspace collapse

run over collapse

isthmus collapse: a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure; a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas

conduit collapse: a passage (a pipe or tunnel) through which water or electric wires can pass; "the computers were connected through a system of conduits"

stand still collapse: remain in place; hold still; remain fixed or immobile; "Traffic stood still when the funeral procession passed by"

catapult collapse: medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles; a device that launches aircraft from a warship; shoot forth or launch, as if from a catapult; "the enemy catapulted rocks towards the fort"

whack collapse: the sound made by a sharp swift blow; hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy"

vale collapse

skim collapse: reading or glancing through quickly; a thin layer covering the surface of a liquid; "there was a thin skim of oil on the water"; used of milk and milk products from which the cream has been removed; "yogurt made with skim milk"; "she can drink skimmed milk but should avoid butter"; read superficially; remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of milk"; coat (a liquid) with a layer; cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"

prosper collapse

as is collapse

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