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Check

A bill of exchange representing a draft on a bank from deposited funds that pays a certain sum of money to a certain person or party.

Check

A document in which the writer orders his/her bank to pay to the receiver of the check a stated amount of money. For example, Joe may write Andrew a check for $10. In doing so, Joe is signing a document stating that he wishes to give Andrew $10, that it is available in Joe's bank, and Andrew can receive it from there. Andrew can either go to Joe's bank, present the check, and collect $10, or he may go to his own bank to deposit the check into his own account. In that case, Andrew's bank contacts Joe's bank and collects the $10 that way. Checks can be for any amount. See also: Check hold.

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In a hybrid election, such as that proposed in the Sotto bill, the automated totals can be checked against the manual precinct counts.

Manual vote counts for greater transparency

Hundreds of thousands of people are thought to have entered Britain without being checked against the Home Office warnings index of suspected terrorists and illegal immigrants.

Labour in call over border controls row

Twenty membership forms received in the July-December 2011 period will be checked against the database for accuracy of the data transferred from the forms.

Review process for leaders

Twelve of these have been validated while the remaining two teams will be checked against the qualifying requirements in the coming days.

Fifteen boats confirmed for 34th America's Cup

But you left out that once the claim reaches the Department of Veterans Affairs regional office, it is then checked against the veteran's Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) at the time and place they were stationed.

Claims story incomplete

In the past, detainees' fingerprints were checked against a Federal Bureau of Investigation database to determine if they had a criminal history.

Identity check: letting local police check detainees' immigration status causes concern

The disk included 2,159profiles from crime scenes in The Netherlands, but it was not checked against the database because an official was on sick leave.

Missed disk had 22 DNA hits; CRIME

ALMOST all visitors to Britain will be counted in and out of the country and checked against security "watch-lists" by 2014, it was announced yesterday.

uk news bulletin: Britain's check-lists to tighten borders

Any applicant will now be checked against the US Government's terrorist watch list (run by the FBI).

US tightens worker background checks

When launched, users can sign on with credentials that are checked against their Blackboard server.

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When a visitor's ID is scanned by an EasyLobby system, the name is automatically passed to eCustoms' online screening solution, where it is checked against up to 50 different government-maintained Restricted Party databases.

System names that goon

The Associated Press reported that airlines will also have to deal with stricter security regulations in the future, including a requirement to hand over passenger names to be checked against the US government's "no-fly" terror watch list before international flights bound for US destinations take off.