checkoff
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈtʃɛkˌɔf/
- US
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lista de verificación
- - Based on the publicly available data, we know they spend at least 557 million dollars promoting their goods through checkoff programs.
- tax checkoff
Examples
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It's a David and Goliath situation because there are actual federal funds called "USDA Commodity Checkoff Programs."
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Teachers may also want to keep an observation journal for individual students and comment on notable changes on a checkoff sheet.
Academic text (2003) -
The dairy checkoff program, be it 12 million dollars to dominoes, to just market cheese-heavy product.
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Basically, the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, NCBA, which is the beef checkoff, uses their money illegally to lobby for horse slaughter.
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If you ask somebody if they've heard the checkoff program, they'll answer that they haven't, although daily, they are seeing the messaging that these programs produce.
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"You're moving from paper checkoff to a much more systematic and presumably faster way to check off voters at the polling stations, where information can be relayed back to a data center in real time."
Blog text (1) -
So, checkoff programs are responsible for the messages that we see on TV, on the internet, on bus billboards, and magazines that say things like, "Milk, it does the body good" or "Milk life," "Beef, it's what's for dinner," "Pork, be inspired," "Incredible, edible egg."
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Before starting the project, the manager checked off each item on the checkoff list to ensure everything was completed.
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The teacher used a checkoff sheet to track which students had turned in their assignments.
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Make sure to mark your progress on the checkoff list as you complete each task.
Synonyms
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1.8
A list of things to check before doing something
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Checkoff comes from putting a check next to an item and taking it off the list, so you 'mark' it as 'done'.