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The act of inspecting or verifying
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checkout
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Word definitions for checkout in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of inspecting or verifying; "they made a check of their equipment"; "the pilot ran through the check-out procedure" [syn: check , check-out procedure ] the latest time for vacating a hotel room; "the checkout here is 12 noon" [syn: checkout time ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 the process of checking out of a hotel, or the latest time to vacate a room in one 2 the process of checking out items at a supermarket or library 3 the place in a supermarket where this is done 4 a test to see if some device is functioning properly ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Checkout may refer to: a point of sale terminal Google Checkout , Google's online payment services Check-Out (The Price Is Right) , a segment game from The Price Is Right in information management, it means blocking a file for editing; see Revision control ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1944, from check (v.) + out (adv.). Originally "training given to a pilot for using a specific aircraft;" hotel sense is from 1958.
Usage examples of checkout.
Arnold Bennett, but it was both clothbound and fat, and it still had an old-fashioned pocket and checkout card in it.
For instance, every beep you hear at the supermarket checkout counter signifies that a tiny laser has scanned a bar code and transmitted its digits to a computer where the checksum has been calculated and found to be correct.
The clerk at the desk peered at him sympathetically as he pressed his fingers into the checkout plate, thereby erasing the impress from the doorplate upstairs.
The checkout was really unnecessary, but Gujar at least was nervous enough to need something to do.
Very often, they are produced by manufacturers and given to retailers to promote the product at impulse points, such as the checkout counters in stores or near registers at supermarkets.
Chief of Police Jack Russo stood on the other side of the scarred, wooden checkout desk, looking impatient.
She reminded herself it was only neighborly to keep an open mind, but she was still glad she had the checkout desk between them.
She got to her feet and handed him his plastic card with his password written on it, then without another word marched back to the checkout desk and pulled down the countertop that closed her off from him.
He leaned on the checkout desk and flicked the plastic password card in his long fingers.
She paused there, taking deep breaths in an effort to appear composed, then breezed through the door and up to the checkout desk as if she were Miss America.
Daisy seated behind the checkout desk, her head bent over some paperworkher blond head.
He said it, not to Hope, but to the man whose job it was to monitor or stand fairly near to the automatic checkout of the underground garage beneath Cavendish Square.
She was ready to head for the checkout counter when a tingle ran up her spine, and her head lifted.
She joined one of the lines at the row of checkout counters and selected a magazine to flip through while she waited, gradually nudging the cart forward.
Lowell had walked around to the front of the store and was coming down in front of the checkout counters.