checkout

noun

SayCHEK-owt/ˈt͡ʃɛkˌaʊt/

7 meanings of checkout

1
nouncountable
The place in a supermarket where customers have their items rung up and pay for them.
Only one checkout was open, so the line stretched back to the frozen-food aisle.
Candy and magazines are displayed beside the checkouts to tempt shoppers waiting in line.
Similartill, register
2
noununcountable
The process of having items rung up or recorded at a supermarket or library, so that they can be paid for or borrowed.
The new scanners have cut checkout times at the supermarket in half.
Library staff handle checkout and returns at the same desk.
3
noununcountable
The stage of an online purchase in which the buyer confirms the order and pays for it.
The app saves your card details, so checkout takes a single tap.
Many online shoppers abandon their carts at checkout when surprise shipping fees appear.
Note
The shop floor moved online: web stores borrowed the supermarket's vocabulary, so a buyer fills a cart and then goes to checkout, the web's stand-in for the counter at the supermarket. It usually goes without an article, as in at checkout or proceed to checkout, because it names a stage of the purchase rather than a place where people line up.
4
nouncountable or uncountable
The process of officially leaving a hotel at the end of a stay, or the latest time by which guests must give up their room.
Checkout is at noon, but the front desk will hold your bags until evening.
We dropped our keys at the front desk and finished checkout in under a minute.
Note
A noun built from the phrasal verb check out, and closed up into one word where the verb stays two. The spelling tells the grammar: guests check out of a hotel by noon, but checkout is at noon. The same split runs through the noun's other meanings, from the supermarket to the darts board.
5
nouncountable
A test carried out to find out whether a device is working properly.
Engineers completed a final checkout of the satellite's instruments before launch.
The systems checkout took longer than planned because one sensor kept failing.
Similartest, check
6
nouncountable
An inspection of something, or an investigation into it.
A quick checkout of the alley turned up nothing but a broken bottle.
The reporter's checkout of the senator's claims found several errors.
Similarinspection, check, investigation, examination
7
nouncountable
In darts, the number of points a player scores on the final, winning visit to the oche, the line players stand behind to throw.
The crowd roared when he hit a 132 checkout to win the match.
Her highest checkout of the night came in the deciding leg.
Note
Darts is scored downward: each player counts down from a set total and must reach exactly zero, usually with the last dart landing in a double. The checkout is what that final visit scores, and a high one is prized because it wins a leg, one game of a match, from far out in a single visit. The score usually goes in front: a 132 checkout.

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Origin

Formed as a noun from the phrasal verb check out.