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background-check

background-check verb: to administer or execute a report on a person’s legal and criminal personal history.

Verb

background-check (third-person singular simple present background-checks, present participle background-checking, simple past and past participle background-checked)

  1. (informal, transitive) To administer or execute a report on a person’s legal and criminal personal history.

Forms of background-check

third-person singular presentbackground-checks
present participlebackground-checking
past participlebackground-checked
pastbackground-checked

Questions about background-check

What does background-check mean?
Background-check means to administer or execute a report on a person’s legal and criminal personal history.
What part of speech is background-check?
Background-check is a verb.
What is the past tense of background-check?
The past tense of background-check is background-checked.

Words near background-check in the dictionary

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  2. background radiation equivalent times
  3. background radiations
  4. background right
  5. background rights
  6. background-check
  7. background-checked
  8. background-checking
  9. background-checks
  10. backgrounded
  11. backgrounder

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