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chequerwork

chequerwork is the alternative form of checkerwork.

Meaning of checkerwork

Noun

checkerwork (countable and uncountable, plural checkerworks)

  1. Synonym of checkwork.
    Synonyms:
    checkwork
  2. (figuratively) A mishmash
    • How strange a checkerwork of Providence is the life of man.1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC

Forms of chequerwork

pluralchequerworks

Origin of chequerwork

From chequer + work.

Questions about chequerwork

What is chequerwork the alternative form of?
Chequerwork is the alternative form of checkerwork.

Words near chequerwork in the dictionary

  1. chequerings
  2. chequers
  3. Chequers agreement
  4. Chequers plan
  5. chequerwise
  6. chequerwork
  7. chequerworks
  8. cheques
  9. chequewriter
  10. chequewriters
  11. chequey

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chequerwork (page history and authors); checkerwork (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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