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puntering

English translation: clocking in/clocking out


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Dutch term or phrase:puntering
English translation:clocking in/clocking out
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03:01 Jul 7, 2004
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Human Resources
Dutch term or phrase: puntering
De aanwezigheidsduur van de arbeid(st)ers wordt vastgesteld door de puntering bij het begin en het einde van iedere arbeidsdag.
JTLingos
Local time: 01:27
clocking in
Explanation:
from the French pointer-to clock in. maybe it's a Flemish text. Or southern Dutch
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writeaway
Local time: 07:27
Grading comment
That's what I thought but wasn't sure. The company where I work in the US also refers to it as clocking in and clocking out.
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4 +3clocking in
writeaway
3time registration/recordingrodi
3point systemMiriam Linschoten, PhD


  

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Miriam Linschoten, PhD
Local time: 23:27
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch
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clocking in


Explanation:
from the French pointer-to clock in. maybe it's a Flemish text. Or southern Dutch

writeaway
Local time: 07:27
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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Grading comment
That's what I thought but wasn't sure. The company where I work in the US also refers to it as clocking in and clocking out.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Dave Greatrix: and clocking out
6 hrs
  -> oh yeah, clocking out... do at home translators ever get to clock out? I just tend to pass out at the end of the working day.. :-)
agree  Maria Danielson: I just encountered this in my translation, too. In US English we would also call this "punching in/out"
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agree  shineda
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time registration/recording


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Note added at 4 hrs 53 mins (2004-07-07 07:54:57 GMT)
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punching = ponsen dit gebeuurde met ponskaarten
Keep accurate time billing records by easily punching time in and out

rodi
Belgium
Local time: 07:27
Native speaker of: Native in RomanianRomanian
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