checker

About 0.67 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun One who or that which checks or verifies something.
2. noun One who makes a check mark.
3. noun The clerk who tallies cost of purchases and accepts payment.

   There was a long line at the grocery store because the checker was so slow.

4. noun One who hinders or stops something.
5. noun A playing piece in the game of checkers (British: draughts), or certain other table games such as backgammon.
6. noun A pattern of alternating colours as on a chessboard.
7. noun An individual square appearing in such a pattern.
8. verb To mark in a pattern of alternating light and dark positions, like a checkerboard.

Similar words

check chequer controller editor auditor reviser trier analyser correction comptroller

Often followed by

and is to for board will in can cab

Word family

checkered checkering checkers