Definitions for checkpoint

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Spelling: [chek-point]

IPA: /ˈtʃɛkˌpɔɪnt/

Checkpoint is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 23 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 26 points.

You can make 461 anagrams from letters in checkpoint (ccehiknopt).

Definitions for checkpoint

noun

1. a place along a road, border, etc., where travelers are stopped for inspection.
2. a point or item, especially in a procedure, for notation, inspection, or confirmation.

Origin of checkpoint

First recorded in 1935-40; check¹ + point

Examples for checkpoint

I missed the first checkpoint and finally realized I was lost.

Apparently all or most of the guards got off at the checkpoint.

Leaving Donetsk, the bus is stopped at a checkpoint just inside the city line.

Her arrest came at a checkpoint in Damascus in June 2013, when soldiers spotted an audio recorder in her bag.

And he had to think about what was going to happen at the checkpoint, and what he would do about it.

It isn't a bad life at the checkpoint, but I'd rather go back to Earth.

After finishing breakfast, we pile back into the truck and head toward the checkpoint.

The first checkpoint was decked out in the blue and yellow of the Ukrainian flag and just inside the city limits.

The bus is waved along past this checkpoint and another as well.

And a checkpoint implied that the ship was searched for escaped prisoners.