checker [n]

english idiom checker
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Meaning:

  • Someone who seats at the cash in the supermarket and whose job is to calculate the purchases of the customers then receives their payment.

Examples:

  1. If they had more checkers, we wouldn’t have to stay in the que for a long time.
  2. Our purchase is finished. Let’s go to the checker and pay for them.
  3. The cashier, or checker, at the grocery store quickly scanned the items in my cart.
  4. In the game of checkers, each player starts with 12 checkers of their color.
  5. Before submitting her essay, she used a grammar checker to catch any mistakes.
  6. The quality checker flagged several products that didn’t meet the standards.

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Quiz; "checker"

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Which condition shows the work of a "checker" better than other choices?

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What is a typical duty of a "checker" in a store?

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Which of the following sentences uses "checker" correctly as a slang?

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What does the slang form of "checker" mean?

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