recheck

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verb

re·​check (ˌ)rē-ˈchek How to pronounce recheck (audio)
rechecked; rechecking; rechecks

transitive verb

: to check (something) again
… the repository locations had to be rechecked a month later, and again after a year, to meet the grant conditions.Joe Awad
… they had, in 20 minutes, cleared U.S. Immigration, retrieved their luggage, zipped through customs, rechecked their bags and were on their way to connect with a flight to Omaha …Alfred Borcover

recheck

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noun

re·​check ˈrē-ˌchek How to pronounce recheck (audio)
plural rechecks
: a second or subsequent check : reexamination
At first, he thought it was instrument error, but a recheck validated the measurements.Eugene Linden

Examples of recheck in a Sentence

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Verb
Wait two hours, then recheck the shower temperature. Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2024 Callahan also urged parents to recheck their students' bus stop information on JCPS' bus finder portal, because some have changed. The Courier-Journal, 21 Aug. 2023 Another lender may recheck your credit report after applying for a new vehicle with a trade-in. Elizabeth Rivelli, Car and Driver, 14 July 2023 The agency had to recheck who was eligible for payments in the new tax year, an extra hurdle that didn’t exist in December, according to a senior administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly. Author: Heather Long, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2021 The health department will recheck the restaurant on Wednesday, officials said. Cheryl V. Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Apr. 2023 Instead of an accelerated time frame to recheck eligibility — given the three-year lapse — the state will take more than a year to check eligibility for the rest of those on Medicaid. Josh Archambault, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023 Obviously, this sort of complicated mechanism requires a lot of things to go right, so researchers will probably want to recheck this work with independent convection models. John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2022 Every time mask wearers cough, scratch or make certain facial expressions, their face covering shifts—and a busy worker may not have time to recheck mask fit each time one of these movements occurs. Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 12 Jan. 2022
Noun
Crews are doing rechecks and searching offshore, because many people fled the flames by plunging into the ocean. Harold Maass, The Week, 26 Aug. 2023 Price is ahead of schedule with his rehab and due in town for a medical recheck this week. Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 13 Mar. 2023 Anyone with a temperature of 100.4 or above after a 10-minute recheck will be sent home, according to school officials. Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com, 6 Aug. 2020

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Word History

First Known Use

Verb

1853, in the meaning defined above

Noun

1891, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of recheck was in 1853

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“Recheck.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recheck. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.

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