(US) The practice of journalists of paying a person or organization for the receipt of a news story.

One who checks or verifies something. / One who makes a check mark. / The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment. / One who hinders or stops something.

(transitive) To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.

The fruit of the wild service tree or chequer tree, Photinia villosa, syn. Sorbus terminalis

A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts). / A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard. / An individual square appearing in such a pattern.

Alternative form of check digit

(dentistry) An interocclusal record made by placing a plastic material (that subsequently hardens) between the upper and lower teeth

One who fact checks

plural of checkdown

plural of checkdigit