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checking

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checking

  1. presentparticiple andgerund ofcheck

Noun

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checking (countable anduncountable,pluralcheckings)

  1. (ice hockey) The act of physically keeping an opposing player incheck.
  2. (countable, finance, informal) Achecking account.
    Withdraw $5000 fromchecking and put it into savings.
  3. An act whereby onechecks something or someone (in any sense).
    • 1991, Kathleen Conlon,Unfinished Business,→ISBN:
      The gin had a delayed reaction. Its effect didn't become felt until Valerie had, after a wearisome walk and numerouscheckings of her map, reached the flat.
  4. (crosswording) Thecrossing of solutions in a grid.
    • 1977,Games & Puzzles:
      One must reckon to solve at least three of the Playfair clues independently before cracking the code and gettingchecking to help with solving the fourth.
    • 1977,Games & Puzzles:
      What about the corpus of Ximenes - Azed specials? In 'Printer's Devilry'checking is normal but the clues are special.
    • 2020 August 20, Telegraph Media Group Ltd,The Telegraph: How To Solve a Cryptic Crossword: Mastering cryptic crosswords made easy, Hachette UK,→ISBN:
      An added complication is that double definition answers are often very short, typically between four and six letters long, so there are lots of possibilities even when you havechecking letters.

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ice hockey

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