check off

present singular third person checks off · participle present checking off · participle past checked off · past checked off

1. PhilippinesUSoftenTo mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory).

   Check off the correct answer to each question.

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   Check off the items on the list that interest you.

   Synonyms: tick off, tick, cross off, strike off

2. To carry out a decision recorded through the process of checking off an item on a list, including dealing with it, removing it from the possible choices, or removing the not checked items from further consideration.
3. To deduct union members' dues from their wages.
4. intransitiveslangprisonTo request protection by prison authorities.

   He's not in gen-pop anymore because he checked off.