# check out

Pronunciation: say "chek-OWT" /ˌt͡ʃɛk ˈaʊt/

## Phrasal verb

1. To examine or inspect something closely, look into it, or gather information to make a decision; also, to eye someone with obvious attraction.
   - Simple: To look closely at something, find out more about it, or look at someone you find attractive.
   - _Before you sign anything, have a mechanic check out the car._
   - _The detective checked out the suspect's alibi with the hotel staff._
2. To record one's departure from a hotel, workplace, restaurant, or similar place.
   - Simple: To sign out or pay before you leave a hotel, a job, or a store.
   - _Guests who check out after noon are charged for an extra night._
   - _The nurses check out at the end of each shift by swiping their badges._
3. To record the departure or withdrawal of someone or something, such as hotel guests, employees, or library books.
   - Simple: To record that a person is leaving or that something is being taken out, like a library book.
   - _With a library card, you can check out up to ten DVDs at a time._
   - _The front desk checked out forty guests before the conference ended._
5. To prove true or in order once it has been looked into.
   - Simple: To be shown to be true or correct after someone checks it.
   - _The bank held the transfer until the sender's identity checked out._
   - _Every figure in the report checks out against the original receipts._
6. To lose interest in an activity and stop taking part except in a token way; to stop cooperating.
   - Simple: To stop caring about something and stop really taking part in it.
   - _After the merger was announced, many employees simply checked out and waited for their severance._
   - _Once the coach started yelling, the players would check out for the rest of practice._
7. An indirect, offhand way of saying to die.
   - Simple: A softer way of saying to die.
   - _The doctors gave him six months, but he had no intention of checking out before his daughter's wedding._
   - _He joked that when he finally checks out, he wants a party instead of a funeral._
8. To take source code or other material from a source control repository in order to modify it, often checking the changed version back in later.
   - Simple: To take a copy of code from the place where a team keeps it, so you can change it.
   - _Each developer checks out the branch, makes changes, and commits them by Friday._
   - _You can't check out a file that a teammate has locked for editing._
9. To become catatonic or otherwise unresponsive to what is going on around one.
   - Simple: To stop reacting to the people and things around you, as if your mind has gone away.
   - _After the accident, she would check out for hours, sitting motionless by the window._
   - _The patient checked out completely and stopped answering the nurses' questions._
10. To take one's last turn at the oche and score all the points one has left, winning the game.
   - Simple: In darts, to throw your last darts and score exactly the points you need to win.
   - _Needing 120, he checked out with treble 20, single 20 and double 20._
   - _Left on 32, she stepped up to the oche and checked out on double 16 to take the leg._

## Noun · check-out

Pronunciation: say "CHEK-owt" /ˈt͡ʃɛk ˌaʊt/

4. Alternative form of checkout. — Alternative form of checkout.
   - Simple: Another spelling of checkout. Used for leaving a hotel or paying in a store.
   - _The hotel offered us a late check-out because our flight left in the evening._
   - _Shoppers waited ten minutes at every check-out in the store._

## Other meanings

- (phrasal verb) To leave a place in a hurry.

## Origin

Formed from the verb phrase check out.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/check-out (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).