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check off
verb
- to mark with a tick
- to deduct (union contributions) directly from an employee's pay
noun
- a procedure whereby an employer deducts union contributions directly from an employee's pay and pays the money to the union
Idioms and Phrases
Mark as entered, or examined and passed, as in He checked off their names as they arrived . [Early 1800s]Example Sentences
This was just one of the local ones that everybody wants to check off on their lists of hikes that they’ve done.
Speaking to BBC Breakfast on Friday, the former professional athlete said hearing of other men getting checked off the back of his announcement "helps me make sense of my situation".
Noisy background characters, even people who are barely onscreen, make themselves heard whenever the film itself has to check off another trope.
After 35 wins and 99 nominations, "Cowboy Carter" checked off major boxes for Beyoncé.
Few would be surprised to hear a Supreme Court justice speak about having childhood dreams, but one particular item Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson checked off her list this weekend might raise an eyebrow or two.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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