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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
double-check
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
double-checked (=looked at twice)
▪ Positive test results are double-checked to make absolutely sure.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "Did you switch the heating off?" "Yes, I double-checked."
Double-check that all the information was copied correctly.
Double-check that the computer file was properly copied.
▪ I don't think I made a mistake. I checked and double-checked all my calculations.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was asked to provide the most inclusive list and leave it to the county officials to double-check the names.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
double-check

1958, from double (adj.) + check (v.). Related: Double-checked; double-checking.

Wiktionary
double-check

alt. To check again (just to be sure) vb. To check again (just to be sure)

WordNet
double-check

v. check once more to be absolutely sure

Usage examples of "double-check".

Miles rode back with Bonn to the base Administration building to double-check his promises about wind direction at the weather office.

When all the shipments had been removed and stored in the low holding warehouse for later distribution, and their totals entered into the computer systems, Troy would hand the double-checked manifests to Cren, who would then determine an equivalent amount of supplies to be sent back up to the Platform in exchange: water, canisters of air, craftwork, and hydroponically grown food or actual agricultural produce.

I took it from the rack, double-checked to be certain it was the one I had saved and walked over to the hematology island where the blood counter and other paraphernalia of the hematology department lived.

I walked from my office down the hallway to the conference room to fill the pot for the first round of coffee, while Mike double-checked to confirm that Piggy was still in the nuthouse at Bellevue.

He had emptied his hiding place under the loose floorboard of all food, double-checked every nook and cranny of his bedroom for forgotten spell books or quills, and taken down the chart on the wall counting down the days to September the first, on which he liked to cross off the days remaining until his return to Hogwarts.

I want you to double-check and make sure there are no leaks or exploitables in your coverup of the Machu Picchu incident.

I want to make perfectly clear that the two bodies exhumed at Cadillac were nothing more than a failsafe precaution, an acknowledgment that certain persons have been raising issues about this office which are so completely unjustified that the best answer seemed to be to double-check our own work.

Clara and I double-checked each other's gear to make sure that our chutes wouldn't tangle in any of our other equipment.

I've had the servers double-check the list of Elders on the Closed Mouth, and none of them are from shrines anywhere near Cliffside Dales.

They double-checked the minimums and ran a second test of the autohelm, but as they passed through two hundred, the view outside the Hyperscreens continued to remain featureless, and brightened only slightly after another hundred irals of descent.

Every vessel, even one as old as the Destiny, was double-checked and had triple back-ups on every circuit.

Sam looked around at his floating cabinmates, andthey were all busy, either working on the transporter,checking the makeshift explosives, taking tricorderreadings, or double-checking the jammer.

The Essays' computers reported when they were ready, the coxswains double-checked the computers and verified.

I told him that I'd double-checked at the time, and slept badly, though I think that may have had more to do with the fact that I wasn't drinking decaffeinated during the corrections.

He was moaning and crying out so loudly that she double-checked her readings—but the tricorder indicated only minor damage to his right deltoideus muscle.