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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
checkout
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
supermarket
▪ Controls would be set up at supermarket checkouts, and anyone buying too many cleaning compounds would be suspected of substance abuse.
▪ Slapdash weeklies at the supermarket checkout line move by the millions circulating gossip, lies, innuendo and scandal.
▪ In reality, Diana was given less training in her new job than the average supermarket checkout operator.
▪ I was talking to a woman at the supermarket checkout the other day.
▪ It may help to keep this in mind next time your two-year-old throws a wobbly at the supermarket checkout.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Luckily, there was no line at the checkout.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A simple computerized library book checkout system has catapulted the number of checked-out books each day to 600.
▪ After that, its introduction will depend on the social acceptability of automatic checkouts.
▪ I wear one four times a year, for my quarterly checkout tests.
▪ Lorraine Gabriel, prosecuting, said McMeekin walked through the checkout without paying and left the bottle in the gents.
▪ Part-time checkout assistants,, enjoy a break in the staff restaurant.
▪ Ruth Smith and Lyn Saunders check the noticeboard to see when they are scheduled to take up their positions on checkouts.
▪ She was sounding unexpectedly urgent as they approached the empty checkout counter.
▪ There were no lines, not even at the checkout.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
checkout

checkout \checkout\ n.

  1. the latest time for vacating a hotel room without being charged for extra time; as, the checkout here is 12 noon.

    Syn: checkout time.

  2. A counter in a supermarket or other retail store where one pays for one's purchases.

    Syn: checkout counter.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
checkout

1944, from check (v.) + out (adv.). Originally "training given to a pilot for using a specific aircraft;" hotel sense is from 1958.

Wiktionary
checkout

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 5 an inspection or investigation

WordNet
checkout
  1. 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]

  2. the latest time for vacating a hotel room; "the checkout here is 12 noon" [syn: checkout time]

  3. a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases [syn: checkout counter]

Wikipedia
Checkout

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
  • The Checkout, an Australian television series

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.