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checking and balancing

checking and balancing is the present participle and gerund of check and balance.

Meaning of check and balance

Verb

check and balance (third-person singular simple present checks and balances, present participle checking and balancing, simple past and past participle checked and balanced)

  1. (idiomatic) Provide mutual oversight and limitation by independent organizations in order to prevent abuses of power.
    • A second distinguishing feature, Shackleton contends, is that the separation of powers also stresses the checking and balancing of one power against another, whereas the mixed state combines all interests solely to prevent or stall the inevitable degeneration of government, not to check power.1992, Isaac Kramnick, Bolingbroke and His Circle, →ISBN, page 145

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Questions about checking and balancing

What is checking and balancing the present participle and gerund of?
Checking and balancing is the present participle and gerund of check and balance.

Words near checking and balancing in the dictionary

  1. checketh
  2. checkin'
  3. checking
  4. checking account
  5. checking accounts
  6. checking and balancing
  7. checking at the door
  8. checking in
  9. checking in with oneself
  10. checking into
  11. checking off

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