CHECKOUT

check out

Verb

  1. To confirm and pay for goods and services at a facility (e.g.: supermarket, online store, hotel) when leaving.
    Be sure to check out of the hotel before noon.
    I'm done shopping, so I'll go check out now.
  2. To withdraw (an item), as from a library, and have the withdrawal recorded.
    He checked his favorite mystery out for the twenty-third time.
  3. To record (someone) as leaving the premises or as taking something therefrom, as from a library or shop.
    The desk clerk checked out the family that had been staying in room 322.
    The library assistant was checking people out.
  4. To examine, inspect, look at closely, ogle; to investigate.
    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 it out! Best prices in town.
    Check this out! They just arrested the Mayor!
    When you're there, check out the Cheddar Cheese Museum! It's a hoot!
    Check us out on the Web at http://en.wiktionary.org!
  5. To obtain source code from a repository.
  6. To become disinterested in an activity and cease to participate in more than a perfunctory manner; to become uncooperative.
  7. To become catatonic or otherwise nonresponsive.
  8. To leave in a hurry.
  9. To die.
  10. To prove (after an investigation) to be the case / in order.
    The first two leads check out; I'll assume the third one is also valid.
    Their stories checked out.


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checkout

Noun

  1. the process of checking out of a hotel, or the latest time to vacate a room in one
  2. the process of checking out items at a supermarket or library
  3. the place in a supermarket where this is done
  4. a test to see if some device is functioning properly
  5. an inspection or investigation


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