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self-check-out

self-check-out is the alternative form of self-check out.

Meaning of self-check out

Verb

self-check out (third-person singular simple present self-checks out, present participle self-checking out, simple past and past participle self-checked out)

  1. (ambitransitive) To check out using a self-checkout.
    • Younger people began to use supermarkets like convenience stores, just buying and self-checking out a few snacks.2003, Steve Barnett, “Understand and Apply Sociology and Anthropology: Build Brand and Leadership through Anthropology and Scenario Planning”, in Dave Ulrich, Marshall Goldsmith, Louis Carter, Jim...

Forms of self-check-out

third-person singular presentself-checks-out
present participleself-checking-out
past participleself-checked-out
pastself-checked-out

Questions about self-check-out

What is self-check-out the alternative form of?
Self-check-out is the alternative form of self-check out.

Words near self-check-out in the dictionary

  1. self-changing
  2. self-characterisation
  3. self-characterization
  4. self-chastisement
  5. self-check out
  6. self-check-out
  7. self-checked out
  8. self-checked-out
  9. self-checking out
  10. self-checking-out
  11. self-checkout

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Adapted from Wiktionary: self-check-out (page history and authors); self-check out (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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