Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A tag or label to be attached to each article of a traveler's baggage, indicating its destination, and also usually the point of departure and the company which issues it.
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Examples
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Meanwhile, other airlines are posting losses, jacking up airfares and resorting to hefty baggage-check surcharges in an effort to cover escalating fuel costs.
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An entire cottage industry has emerged for products that help people evade the baggage-check fees, according to Kate Hanni, director of
NYT > Home Page By JANET MORRISSEY 2012
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An entire cottage industry has emerged for products that help people evade the baggage-check fees, according to Kate Hanni, director of
NYT > Home Page By JANET MORRISSEY 2012
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Airports were judged on six factors: accessibility, the check-in and baggage-check process, baggage claim, terminal facilities, security check, and food and retail services.
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He and Detective Tim Duggan had an argument in the baggage-check area during a disagreement over improperly packed liquids in Logan's baggage.
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And by shipping your luggage, you also skip the baggage-check lines at the airport.
The News Tribune Blogs newstips@thenewstribune.com (HUGO MARTIN; Los Ange 2010
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He and Detective Tim Duggan had an argument in the baggage-check area during a disagreement over improperly packed liquids in Logan's baggage.
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Airports were judged on six factors: accessibility, the check-in and baggage-check process, baggage claim, terminal facilities, security check, and food and retail services.
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In addition, customers can elect to bypass baggage-check screens if they are not checking bags, trimming the transaction to as little as one click -- from start to finish.
News 2008
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The subjects discussed, as I have since learned from Mr. Otis, were merely such as form the ordinary conversation of cultured Americans of the better class, such as the immense superiority of Miss Fanny Devonport over Sarah Bernhardt as an actress; the difficulty of obtaining green corn, buckwheat cakes, and hominy, even in the best English houses; the importance of Boston in the development of the world-soul; the advantages of the baggage-check system in railway traveling; and the sweetness of the New York accent as compared to the
Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906
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