Checker

Quick meaning: Checker is a noun meaning One who or that which checks or verifies something.

Meaning

One who or that which checks or verifies something.

More Meanings

1. One who makes a check mark.
2. The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.
3. One who hinders or stops something.
4. A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
5. A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
6. An individual square appearing in such a pattern.
7. (transitive) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.

Example Sentences

There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.

"Essentially," said a senior vice president of the FHLBB of Dallas, "we were checkers of boxes."

So, keep in mind that Microsoft Word’s Spelling tool is as much a “typo” tool as a checker of spelling.

Bud Brown said something to the checker he was supervising; she had been craning around to see what was happening. She flushed and began to run her calculator again.

Word Forms

• checkers
• chequer
• checkering
• checkered

Synonyms for checker

Depending on context, synonyms include check, chequer.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include check, chequer, controller, editor, auditor, reviser.

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