Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or process of checking (the items of an account, list, invoice, etc.), or the fact of having been checked.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of checking.
  • noun The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of marking with a check mark.
  • noun The items or amount to which attention is called by a check mark.

Etymologies

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check +‎ -age

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Examples

  • With their impressive credentials - tours with the likes of MGMT and Glasvegas, name checkage in Rolling Stone, and a band member who used to play with Win Butler from Arcade Fire

    Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com 2009

  • With their impressive credentials - tours with the likes of MGMT and Glasvegas, name checkage in Rolling Stone, and a band member who used to play with Win Butler from Arcade Fire

    Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com 2009

  • What better way to say "Hi there!" than go in for major checkage of the wee-waw?

    haloaskew Diary Entry haloaskew 2005

  • In the personal life there is, if I may say so, no provision for checkage.

    The Nature of Goodness George Herbert Palmer 1887

  • I can readily see that this body of mine has in it what I have called a provision for checkage.

    The Nature of Goodness George Herbert Palmer 1887

  • What really happened was that I returned his checkage with an ice grill because apparently that's my protocol.

    NBC Bay Area - 2009

  • LShdr * hdr; int xlen; hdr = BuildLSA (lsap); xlen = ntoh16 (hdr-ls_length) - sizeof (uns16); if (! hdr-verify_cksum ()) sys-halt (HALT_DBCORRUPT, "Corrupted LS database"); checkage = false; iter. remove_current ();

    Ubuntu Forums mhaider2 2010

  • LSA * lsap; for (age = CheckAge; age for (lsap = LSA:: AgeBins [bin]; lsap; lsap = lsap-lsa_agefwd) {if (! lsap-checkage) {lsap-checkage = true; dbcheck_list. addEntry (lsap);

    Ubuntu Forums mhaider2 2010

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