check off

check off
verb
put a check mark on or near or next to
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Please check each name on the list

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tick off the items

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mark off the units

• Syn: ↑check, ↑mark, ↑mark off, ↑tick off, ↑tick
• Derivationally related forms: ↑check (for: ↑check)
• Hypernyms: ↑verify
• Hyponyms: ↑receipt
• Verb Group:
↑check, ↑check up on, ↑look into, ↑check out, ↑suss out, ↑check over, ↑go over, ↑check into, ↑see, ↑insure, ↑see to it, ↑ensure, ↑control, ↑ascertain, ↑assure
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something

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I. transitive verb
1. : to check or mark as noted : tick off : note item by item
2. : to eliminate from further consideration

robbery was checked off as a motive

3. : to handle by the checkoff

check off each miner's dues

II. intransitive verb
: to change a play at the line of scrimmage in football by calling an audible

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check off
1. To mark off on a list, usu with a tick, as having arrived, been completed, etc
2. To deduct (trade union dues) from a worker's pay before he or she receives it (N American; checkˈ-off noun)
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Main Entry: ↑check

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ˌcheck ˈoff [transitive] [present tense I/you/we/they check off he/she/it checks off present participle checking off past tense checked off past participle checked off] phrasal verb
to tick off something
Thesaurus: to remove something from a listsynonym types of listhyponym
Main entry: check

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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