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background-checked

background-checked is the simple past and past participle of background-check.

Meaning of background-check

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.

Questions about background-checked

What is background-checked the simple past and past participle of?
Background-checked is the simple past and past participle of background-check.

Words near background-checked in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: background-checked (page history and authors); background-check (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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