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checkpoint

[ chek-point ]

noun

  1. a place along a road, border, etc., where travelers are stopped for inspection.
  2. a point or item, especially in a procedure, for notation, inspection, or confirmation.


checkpoint

/ ˈtʃɛkˌpɔɪnt /

noun

  1. a place, as at a frontier or in a motor rally, where vehicles or travellers are stopped for official identification, inspection, etc


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Word History and Origins

Origin of checkpoint1

First recorded in 1935–40; check 1 + point

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Example Sentences

In northern Sinai in October the group killed 31 soldiers during a raid on an army checkpoint.

After finishing breakfast, we pile back into the truck and head toward the checkpoint.

Her arrest came at a checkpoint in Damascus in June 2013, when soldiers spotted an audio recorder in her bag.

On May 20, a pickup truck drove to an Iraqi army checkpoint in the city of Tal Afar.

Back at the Mariupol checkpoint, a Ukrainian National Guardsmen gave a man with an "old" passport a hard time.

Apparently all or most of the guards got off at the checkpoint.

And a checkpoint implied that the ship was searched for escaped prisoners.

It isn't a bad life at the checkpoint, but I'd rather go back to Earth.

And he had to think about what was going to happen at the checkpoint, and what he would do about it.

Their lives were spent on the checkpoint, except for periods of service on the prison ship.

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