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background-checks

background-checks is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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-checks

What is background-checks the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Background-checks is the third-person singular simple present indicative of background-check.

Words near background-checks in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: background-checks (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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