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background-checking

background-checking is the present participle and gerund 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-checking

What is background-checking the present participle and gerund of?
Background-checking is the present participle and gerund of background-check.

Words near background-checking in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: background-checking (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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