Meanings
present singular third person checks out · participle present checking out · participle past checked out · past checked out
- transitiveTo record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something (such as guests, employees, books, etc.).
He checked his favorite mystery out for the twenty-third time.
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The desk clerk checked out the family that had been staying in room 322.
- intransitiveTo record one's departure from a workplace, hotel, restaurant, etc.
I'm done shopping, so I'll go check out now.
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Be sure to check out of the hotel before noon.
[…] the singer person is checking out from the first floor suite next week, […]
1921, Sewell Ford, Inez & Trilby May, New York: Grosset & Dunlap; Harper & Brothers, page 41"Relax," said the night man / "We are programmed to receive / You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave!"
1977, “Hotel California”, in Don Henley, Glenn Frey (lyrics), Don Felder (music), Hotel California, performed by The EaglesAt 9:30 am, 12 inmates were checked out to the dispensary.
2010, Peterson's, Master the Corrections Officer Exam, Peterson's, page 9 - transitiveTo examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate; to gather information so as to make a decision.
Check it out! Best prices in town.
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He was hanging out at the beach, checking out the young women in bikinis.
He checked out the rumor, and managed to verify that it was true.
Check this out! They just arrested the Mayor!
If Mr. Brill had been interested in accuracy, he might have read the written statement I presented that night. I was speaking on my own behalf because I felt that the Darts management deserved my support. Mr. Brill might even have asked me about my testimony. Instead he chose to check out his half-facts with others. His resultant report was inaccurate and divisive.
1979 August 25, Steven Tierney, “Darts”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 5 - transitivecomputingTo obtain source code (or other material) from a source control repository so that one can modify it (and often later check in the modified version).
- intransitiveTo become uninterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
The purpose of this exercise was to ignite reactions from students, but over the few years I used it, it backfired, culminating in a situation where I lost a significant number of the white students, who just "checked out" for the rest of the semester.
2010, S. Greggory Johnson III, The Black Professoriat: Negotiating a Habitable Space in the Academy, page 189 - intransitiveTo become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
Even during those years, there would be a lot of times she just checked out. She would be sitting there looking at her nails and she'd just be gone.
2007, Susan Nathiel, Daughters of Madness: Growing Up and Older With a Mentally Ill Mother, page 42 - broadlyeuphemisticintransitiveTo die.
With a bottle full of sleeping pills and a long list of sins She'd already planned on checking out before she checked in
2012, Gwen Sebastian, Met Him In a Motel Room1 more example
Steve: (referring to his girlfriend attempting suicide in front of both of them) Look, I was just an observer. Bishop: You haven't answered my question. Steve: Well, what do you think? Bishop: We'll never know, will we? Steve: Well, say I just sat there—or we just sat there—and watched her check out. Think that would have been crazy?
1972, The Mechanic (1972 film), Charles Bronson (as Mr. Bishop), Jan-Michael Vincent (as Steve) - intransitiveTo prove (after an investigation) to be the case, or to be in order.
Their stories checked out.
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The first two leads check out; I'll assume the third one is also valid.
A comparison test was made with this weapon in laboratory. It definitely checks out as the murder gun.
1960, “The Case of the Ill-Fated Faker”, in Perry Mason, season 4, episode 3MySQL checks the validity of the account name and password, and checks whether the connection is coming from a host that's allowed to connect [...]. If everything checks out, MySQL accepts the connection.
2013, Steve Suehring, Janet Valade, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript & HTML5 All-in-One For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 459Synonyms: check, track, figure, make sense, add up
- dartsTo visit the oche for the last time and clear one's remaining points to win the game.
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo prove (after an investigation) to be the case, or to be in order.
antonym(s) of “most senses”
More synonyms by meaning
verbexamine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Catalan investigar
- investigarto examine, inspect, look at closely
Chinese Mandarin 退房
- 退房 (tuì fáng)to pay when leaving
Danish udskrive, udskrive
- udskriveto withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
- udskriveto record someone as leaving
Dutch onderzoeken, afrekenen
- onderzoekento examine, inspect, look at closely
- afrekenento pay when leaving
- uitcheckento record someone as leaving
- afmeldento record someone as leaving
Finnish katsoa, tsekata
- katsoato examine, inspect, look at closely
- tsekatato examine, inspect, look at closely
- tsekkaillato examine, inspect, look at closely
- kuitata ulosto obtain computer source code from a source code control system
- häipyäto leave in a hurry
- heittää hokkaritto die
- maksaa laskuto pay when leaving
- maksaato pay when leaving
- kirjautua ulosto pay when leaving
- lainatato withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
- kuitatato withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
- kuitata ulosto withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
French mater, regarder
- materto examine, inspect, look at closely
- regarderto examine, inspect, look at closely
- examinerto examine, inspect, look at closely
- se barrerto leave in a hurry
- se casserto leave in a hurry
- s'en allerto leave in a hurry
- creverto die
- claquerto die
- régler sa note (d'hôtel)to pay when leaving
- emprunterto withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
German überprüfen, in Eile verlassen
- überprüfento examine, inspect, look at closely
- in Eile verlassento leave in a hurry
- bezahlend verlassento pay when leaving
- auscheckento pay when leaving
- sich abmeldento withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
- austragento record someone as leaving
- ausbuchento record someone as leaving
- registrierento record someone as leaving
Hebrew בדק, הסתלק
- בדק (badák)to examine, inspect, look at closely
- הסתלק (histalék)to leave in a hurry
- החזיר ציוד (hekhzír tsiyúd)to die
- שילם (shilém)to pay when leaving
- סגר חשבון (sagar kheshbón)to pay when leaving
Hungarian ellenőriz, megvizsgál
- ellenőrizto examine, inspect, look at closely
- megvizsgálto examine, inspect, look at closely
- letesztelto examine, inspect, look at closely
- lecsekkolto examine, inspect, look at closely
- megnézto examine, inspect, look at closely
- utánajárto examine, inspect, look at closely
- végére járto examine, inspect, look at closely
- elsietto leave in a hurry
- meghalto die
- elhunyto die
- távozikto die
- kijelentkezikto pay when leaving
Indonesian memeriksa, menyimak
- memeriksato examine, inspect, look at closely
- menyimakto examine, inspect, look at closely
- tewasto die
- meninggalto die
- bayar keluarto pay when leaving
- lapor keluarto record someone as leaving
Italian investigare, fare il check-out
- investigareto examine, inspect, look at closely
- fare il check-outto pay when leaving
Japanese 試験する, 検査する
- 試験する (shiken suru)to examine, inspect, look at closely
- 検査する (kensa suru)to examine, inspect, look at closely
- 調べる (shiraberu)to examine, inspect, look at closely
- 調査する (chōsa suru)to examine, inspect, look at closely
- 死ぬ (shinu)to die
- チェックアウトする (chekku auto suru)to pay when leaving
- 借りる (kariru)to withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
- 借り出す (karidasu)to withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
Latin aspectō
- aspectōto examine, inspect, look at closely
Māori whakatewhatewha
- whakatewhatewhato examine, inspect, look at closely
Polish sprawdzić, obczajać
- sprawdzićto examine, inspect, look at closely
- obczajaćto examine, inspect, look at closely
- obczaićto examine, inspect, look at closely
- badaćto examine, inspect, look at closely
- zbadaćto examine, inspect, look at closely
- wymeldować sięto pay when leaving
- wymeldować sięto record someone as leaving
Portuguese verificar, sacar só
- verificarto examine, inspect, look at closely
- sacar sóto examine, inspect, look at closely
- vazarto leave in a hurry
- pagar a contato pay when leaving
- fazer o checkoutto pay when leaving
- retirarto withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
Russian проверя́ть, прове́рить
- проверя́ть (proverjátʹ)to examine, inspect, look at closely
- прове́рить (provéritʹ)to examine, inspect, look at closely
- смота́ться (smotátʹsja)to leave in a hurry
- смы́ться (smýtʹsja)to leave in a hurry
- улизну́ть (uliznútʹ)to leave in a hurry
- сдо́хнуть (sdóxnutʹ)to die
- дать ду́ба (datʹ dúba)to die
- распла́чиваться (raspláčivatʹsja)to pay when leaving
- расплати́ться (rasplatítʹsja)to pay when leaving
- брать (bratʹ)to withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
- взять (vzjatʹ)to withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
Scottish Gaelic feuch
- feuchto examine, inspect, look at closely
Spanish investigar, chequear
- investigarto examine, inspect, look at closely
- chequearto examine, inspect, look at closely
- checarto examine, inspect, look at closely
- obtenerto obtain computer source code from a source code control system
- pagar la cuentato pay when leaving
- retirarseto pay when leaving
- registrarse la salidato pay when leaving
- facturarse de salidato pay when leaving
- chequearse deto pay when leaving
- documentarse deto pay when leaving
- sacarto withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
- registrar la salidato record someone as leaving
Swedish kolla in
- kolla into examine, inspect, look at closely
Turkish gözden geçirmek, aceleyle ayrılmak
- gözden geçirmekto examine, inspect, look at closely
- aceleyle ayrılmakto leave in a hurry
- vefat etmekto die
- hesabı ödeyip ayrılmakto pay when leaving
- ödemeyi yapıp ayrılmakto pay when leaving
- kaydı kapatıp ayrılmakto withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
- çıkışı denetlemekto record someone as leaving
Ukrainian перевіря́ти, переві́рити
- перевіря́ти (perevirjáty)to examine, inspect, look at closely
- переві́рити (perevíryty)to examine, inspect, look at closely
- здо́хнути (zdóxnuty)to die
- здох (zdox)to die
- да́ти ду́ба (dáty dúba)to die
- розпла́чуватися (rozpláčuvatysja)to pay when leaving
- розплати́тися (rozplatýtysja)to pay when leaving
- бра́ти (bráty)to withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
- взя́ти (vzjáty)to withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
- взяв (vzjav)to withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
- взяла́ (vzjalá)to withdraw (an item) from a library etc., and have the withdrawal recorded
Vietnamese tính tiền, trả phòng
- tính tiềnto pay when leaving
- trả phòngto pay when leaving
Yiddish זיך אויסשרײַבן
- זיך אויסשרײַבן (zikh oysshraybn)to record someone as leaving
Cite this entry
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“check out.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/check%20out. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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