Definition of "timekeeper" [time•keep•er]

• One who records time, as: (noun)
• Sports One who keeps track of elapsed time in a sporting event. (noun)
• One who keeps records of the hours worked by employees. (noun)
• A device for keeping time; a timepiece. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Instead a timekeeper is assigned, typically an apprentice professional."
• "‘Time is money’ became on of the key slogans of capitalist ideology, and the timekeeper was the most significant of the new types of official introduced by the capitalist dispensation."
• "I am the timekeeper, which is to say my clock is the legitimate clock for this auction."