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n. The time that a day's work ends, and at which an employee may go home
Usage examples of "quitting time".
I had the console rigged to measure quitting time to the nanosecond.
So at quitting time Dannerman went looking for the Cypriot astronomer, Christo Papathanassiou.
It was about four in the afternoon when I arrived, and I realized that I hadn't asked Anna about her quitting time.
In the old days, when women had watched over the machines, some of the more simple-hearted had been found sitting rigidly at their posts, staring, long after quitting time.
Just as always the people crowd the streets in the afternoon sunshine, for it is just about quitting time.
Cline had one custom often seen among slaveholders: he would take a long rest in the afternoon, then an hour before quitting time he would appear lively and fresh.
It was safer to think of home- of quitting time in the fields, and the soft gray silk of clouds fading and fading, until that moment white domes all but glowed with strangeness and the night-lights around the Base walks, coming on with dusk, were very small and weak guides against the coming dark.
So they shook on it, and old Covina carried Daisy and her new duds to the back of the store, where she was supposed to change and stay put until quitting time.
It was an hour before quitting time, and I was looking for my mother.