Definitions for double-check

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Spelling: [duhb-uh l-chek]

IPA: /ˈdʌb əlˈtʃɛk/

Double-Check is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 395 anagrams from letters in double-check (-bccdeehklou).

Definitions for double-check

noun

1. a second examination or verification to assure accuracy, proper functioning, or the like.
2. a simultaneous check by two pieces in which the moving of one piece to give check also results in discovering a check by another piece.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to check twice or again; recheck.

Origin of double-check

An Americanism dating back to 1950-55

Examples for double-check

To double-check, Taylor was winched out to carry out a physical search of the boat.

(double-check, actually, as the topic of Iran took up two of the four slots on the agenda).

"Well, all that was simply a check and double-check, you might say," Colonel Welsh said as his face became grave.

The crooked system of double-check tenders for timber limits must be altered.

I think that's what I've been told by experts in the past, will double-check.

To double-check, he used the radius of the Galaxy as base to calculate the distance.

So I'm going to double-check on this one just to make sure.

It might be a case of check and double-check, but the breaks were mostly on Suicide Sasebo's side.