CHECKER Definition & Meaning

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checker

[ chek-er ]

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noun

a small, usually red or black disk of plastic or wood, used in playing checkers.
checkers,
1. alsocalledcomma British, draughts [drafts, drahfts]. (used with a singular verb) a game played by two persons, each with 12 playing pieces, on a checkerboard.
2. (in a regenerative furnace) loosely stacked brickwork through which furnace gases and incoming air are passed in turn, so that the heat of the exhaust is absorbed and later transferred to the incoming air.
a checkered pattern.
one of the squares of a checkered pattern.

verb (used with object)

to mark like a checkerboard.
to diversify in color; variegate.
to diversify in character; subject to alternations:
Sorrow and joy have checkered his life.

checker

[ chek-er ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person or thing that checks.
a cashier, as in a supermarket or cafeteria.
a person who checks coats, baggage, etc.

checker

/ ˈ��ʃɛ��ə /

noun

the usual US spelling of chequer

noun

textiles a variant spelling of chequer
any one of the 12 flat thick discs used by each player in the game of checkers Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)draughtsman

checker

/ ˈ��ʃɛ��ə /

noun

a cashier, esp in a supermarket
an attendant in a cloakroom, left-luggage office, etc

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Origin of checker¹

First recorded in 1250–1300; Middle English check(i)er, chequer, chekker “chessboard, checkerboard,” from Old French eschequier, eschaquier (by shortening), equivalent to eschec + -er; check ¹, -er ²

Origin of checker²

First recorded in 1525–35; check ¹ + -er ¹

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Meanwhile, the PM will take aim at the "cottage industry of checkers and blockers slowing down delivery".

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He will take aim at a "cottage industry of checkers and blockers slowing down delivery for working people", as he argues the state has become bigger but weaker.

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The California Department of Transportation’s half-century epic over the failed 710 Freeway expansion — and the homes the agency acquired to build it — is coming to a checkered climax.

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“The fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they’ve created, especially in the US,” he said in the video.

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But Baybars Orsek, the managing director of Logically Facts, which supplies fact checking services to Meta in the UK, argues professional fact checkers can target the most dangerous misinformation and identify emerging "harmful narratives".

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