attendance check
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- noun
- /əˈtɛndəns tʃɛk/
:
control de asistencia
- The teacher performed an attendance check to see who was present for the field trip.
Examples
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Before starting the lesson, we need to do an attendance check to ensure everyone is here.
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In response to the misuse of class time in Case #6, respondents proposed having review work from the day before on the board for students to do during attendance check; asking students to review notes.
Academic text (1998) -
This kind of activity could be done as a way to conduct a morning greeting or attendance check, or even as a way to dismiss children one at a time from their seats.
Academic text (2014) -
The captain acts as a military adviser to students under him, supervises guard duty and any military training in which students must take part, and performs the much-disliked surprise attendance checks to determine that a student is on campus on any given day (though not whether a student has attended class).
Academic text (1990) -
During the attendance check, the students raised their hands to indicate they were present.
Synonyms
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People call out a list of names to check who is present in a meeting, classroom or group
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To read a list of names aloud to check who is present
A quick check of how many people are present to see attendance or support
How Official
- Formal
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- Jargon
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an act of calling names to see who is present' is directly and transparently derived from 'attendance' (presence) + 'check' (a quick inspection). This noun+noun compositional pattern is common and cross-linguistically predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Attendance check comes from a simple classroom scene: a teacher reads a list and makes a check next to each name to record attendance. That's why attendance check means 'an act of calling names to see who is present'.