checking

1. (ice hockey) The act of physically keeping an opposing player in check.countableuncountable

2. (countable, finance, informal) A checking account.Examples: "Withdraw $5000 from checking and put it into savings."countableinformal

3. (crosswording) The crossing of solutions in a grid.Examples: "One must reckon to solve at least three of the Playfair clues independently before cracking the code and getting checking to help with solving the fourth."; "What about the corpus of Ximenes - Azed specials? In 'Printer's Devilry' checking is normal but the clues are special."; "An added complication is that double definition answers are often very short, typically between four and six letters long, so there are lots of possibilities even when you have checking letters."countableuncountable