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spot check
noun
a random sampling or quick sample investigation: A spot check showed that at least ten percent of the items were defective.
Origin:
1940–45
1940–45
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World English Dictionary
| spot check | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a quick random examination |
| 2. | a check made without prior warning |
| —vb | |
| 3. | (tr) to perform a spot check on |
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Example sentences
Use hand-held level or eye level to check level of tank and spot check level of leach line.
My foreman advises me on unusual problems and my work is subject to spot check during progress.
Conducts regular and/or spot check inventories of merchandise, supplies, or equipment.
Commissary officials maintain the right to spot check for unauthorized people in their stores.
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