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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
checklist
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
include
▪ What might be included in such a checklist for the reform of the DHAs?
▪ Each case study includes a checklist of tips.
▪ In conference, the group was asked to identify items they thought should be included in a checklist of standards.
use
▪ The interviewer uses a checklist to ensure that specific areas are covered, requesting explanations or introducing new topics as necessary.
▪ If regular recording is possible, teachers could be trained to monitor themselves using a checklist of this kind.
▪ This can also be used to locate checklists or review lists.
▪ These aims were to be used as a checklist to test curriculum policies.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Here is a checklist of things you need to buy before travelling to India.
▪ She has a checklist she gives to the cleaning woman.
▪ Use a checklist when visiting properties to buy, so that you keep a record of which features you liked and didn't like.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A checklist completed by teachers will give a measure of the use of over two hundred activities in computer education lessons.
▪ A checklist of items under these headings could be of value to governors.
▪ A useful checklist to run through includes questions like: Is there some one I can trust to talk things through with?
▪ His checklist suggests what you should clean and when.
▪ Systematic use of a checklist often reveals faults in work design such as inadequate access, visibility and labelling.
▪ The interviewer uses a checklist to ensure that specific areas are covered, requesting explanations or introducing new topics as necessary.
▪ Voice recorders also showed no indication pilots had gone through a routine checklist of landing procedures.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
checklist

also check-list, 1853, American English, from check + list (n.). Two words until c.1880; hyphenated until late 20c.

Wiktionary
checklist

n. 1 A list of tasks to be completed, names to be consulted, conditions to be verified and similar. 2 An inventory, especially of species.

WordNet
checklist

n. a list of items (names or tasks etc.) to be checked or consulted

Wikipedia
Checklist

A' checklist' is a type of informational job aid used to reduce failure by compensating for potential limits of human memory and attention. It helps to ensure consistency and completeness in carrying out a task. A basic example is the "to do list." A more advanced checklist would be a schedule, which lays out tasks to be done according to time of day or other factors. A primary task in checklist is documentation of the task and auditing against the documentation.

Usage examples of "checklist".

When he finally got back to the bunkroom he found Lars poring over a checklist of supplies.

Marie leaned out the engine fuel mixture, then, when it died, switched off the magnetos and went through the rest of the engine shutdown checklist.

That catalog of things on the folded paper must have been intended as a checklist, things to be checked off to avoid leaving behind any identification.

I leaned closer to the display and saw a function checklist scrolling down repeatedly.

The flight crew were on their backs, going through the final items on the prelaunch checklist with no wasted motion.

Jubal had a mental checklist for that operation, and he went through it methodically, testing each bolt to be sure it was tight enough.

He was sitting on the edge of his own bunk, the checklist trembling in his hand, trying to keep a smile on his sweaty, weary face.

Tom telling Shay that they had a chain of command, a checklist, a routine to follow and it was wise if they were left to themselves to do it.

Wesker stepped into the elevator that led back to level three, running through his checklist as he lowered the outer gate and slid the inner one closed.

REVIEW OF THE BACKGROUND CHECKLIST Let us briefly examine this story, then, in the light of the CHECKLIST from chapter six.

REVIEW OF THE CONFLICT CHECKLIST This time, let us use the CHECKLIST as the basis for a quiz.

Red Thunder, the specs of every piece of equipment in her, the proper way to troubleshoot a fan or a water pump or a Sears Kenmore freezer, the preflight checklists for each crew member.

One of the graduate prorectors' little tasks is supposedly to go around to different Subdorm floors and check the rooms for things like are the beds made up drum-tight, with unpleasant little extra drills added to the regimens of bed-making and toothpaste-cap replacing slackers, though few of the prorectors have the combination anality and drive actually to go around to their assigned rooms with a checklist, the exceptions being Au brey deLint, Mary Esther Thode, and the hatchet-faced Kenyan Tony Nwangi, who's got the Pemulis/Troeltsch/Schacht suite under extremely beady scrutiny at all times.

There were scraps of notes, from the crew to themselves, and emergency checklists, and hundreds of tiny round-cornered squares of blue Velcro stuck to the walls.

Sweating coolies grunted and chanted hai-yo, hai-yo as they struggled up gangplanks, carrying the loot of China under the supervision of white-suited young griffins with their checklists, and Gurkhas with their blackjacks.