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tick boxes

tick boxes is the plural of tick box.

Meaning of tick box

Noun

tick box (plural tick boxes)

  1. A small space on a form in which a tick or cross may be placed as a response.
    • There was a simple tick-box option to book a hire car on the island.2021 October 20, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: How to win leisure travellers”, in RAIL, number 942, page 3
    Synonyms:
    checkbox, ticky box

Questions about tick boxes

What is tick boxes the plural of?
Tick boxes is the plural of tick box.

Words near tick boxes in the dictionary

  1. tick bean
  2. tick beans
  3. tick bite
  4. tick bites
  5. tick box
  6. tick boxes
  7. tick by
  8. tick down
  9. tick fever
  10. tick mark
  11. tick marks

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