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11check off — (Roget s IV) v. Syn. mark off, check, verify, notice; see mark 2 …
12check off — {v.} To put a mark beside (the name of a person or thing on a list) to show that it has been counted. * /The teacher checked off each pupil as he got on the bus./ * /Bill wrote down the names of all the states he could remember, and then he… …
13check off — {v.} To put a mark beside (the name of a person or thing on a list) to show that it has been counted. * /The teacher checked off each pupil as he got on the bus./ * /Bill wrote down the names of all the states he could remember, and then he… …
14check\ off — v To put a mark beside (the name of a person or thing on a list) to show that it has been counted. The teacher checked off each pupil as he got on the bus. Bill wrote down the names of all the states he could remember, and then he checked them… …
15check off — verb Date: 1884 transitive verb 1. to eliminate from further consideration 2. to deduct (union dues) from a worker s paycheck intransitive verb to change a play at the line of scrimmage in football by calling an a …
16automatic check-off — UK US noun [C or U] (US HR ► a system in which an employer takes money from an worker s salary to pay for the worker to be a member of a trade union: »The Employer agrees to the automatic check off of all union dues and assessments as a condition …
17check-off system — Procedure whereby employer deducts union dues directly from pay of employees and remits such sums to union …
18check-off system — Procedure whereby employer deducts union dues directly from pay of employees and remits such sums to union …
19check — [chek] n. [ME chek < OFr eschec, eschac, a check at chess, repulse < ML scaccus, scahus < Pers šāh, king, principal piece in a game of chess (see SHAH1); prob. sense development: king in danger hostile action restraining action means of… …
20check — Synonyms and related words: CD, IOU, MO, X, a reckoning of, abrade, abrasion, abysm, abyss, acceptance, acceptance bill, accord, account, account of, agree, allophone, alveolar, answer to, aperture, apico alveolar, apico dental, arrest,… …
