Checker

/ˈtʃɛkə/ · noun

Meaning

One who or that which checks or verifies something..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

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Related Words

Word Forms

• checkers
• chequer
• checkering
• checkered

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