Verb
(transitive) To personally verify that (someone or something) is safe, copacetic, appropriate or satisfactory.
I sent Tom to check on the northside's branch's progress.
(transitive) To verify a specific fact; to quickly examine a situation, especially to look for updates or new information on a topic that has previously been discussed.
Have the price-tags been updated? I'll check on that right away, sir.
In effect the people were present through their representatives, and were themselves, step by step and point by point, acting in the conduct of public affairs. No longer merely an ultimate check on government, they were in some sense the government. Bernard Bailyn
In order to be able to go on living it is possible that the bankrupt peoples will have to enter on a new path of self-denial, by curbing their covetousness and putting a check on the indefinite expansion of their wants, and by having smaller families. Nikolai Berdyaev
By relying primarily on voluntary co-operation and private enterprise, in both economic and other activities, we can insure that the private sector is a check on the powers of the governmental sector and an effective protection of freedom of speech, of religion, and of thought. Milton Friedman
Even in the act of composition, the poet is in a state in which the reflective elements are subordinated to the intuitive. The vision, however, is not operative for so long as it continues, its very stress acts as a check on expression. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce. Walter Savage Landor
If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor. Robert Metcalfe