Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An official at a theater, concert-hall, etc., who receives the checks or tickets given by the money-taker.
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Examples
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If, above all, he possess a base nature, if, like Hebert, who was check-taker at the door of a theatre, and embezzled money out of the receipts, he be destitute of natural morality, and if he leap all at once from the mud of his condition into power, he is as mean as he is atrocious.
The Trial Of Marie-Antoinette 14 Oct. 1793 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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If, above all, he possess a base nature, if, like Hebert, who was check-taker at the door of a theatre, and embezzled money out of the receipts, he be destitute of natural morality, and if he leap all at once from the mud of his condition into power, he is as mean as he is atrocious.
Archive 2007-10-14 de Brantigny........................ 2007
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The conductor or check-taker, or guard, or whatever he may be, wears no uniform.
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Mrs. Bolton did not in the least understand what part Mr. Pendennis was performing, and whether it was the check-taker or the Captain he was taking off.
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Costigan vainly expostulating with the check-taker at Vauxhall.
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Overnight the public fastened on to one expression, one tangible, understandable image–the check-taker, the chequard.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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Overnight the public fastened on to one expression, one tangible, understandable image–the check-taker, the chequard.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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If, above all, he possess a base nature, if, like Hebert, who was check-taker at the door of a theatre, and embezzled money out of the receipts, he be destitute of natural morality, and if he leap all at once from the mud of his condition into power, he is as mean as he is atrocious.
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Peter has a certificate of being "a _bould_ speaker," from old Richardson, in whose company he was engaged as parade-clown and check-taker.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 Various
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First the man at the pay-box and then the check-taker had looked at him, and now he was being looked at by the people about him.
The Christian A Story Hall Caine 1892
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