CHECKOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does checkout mean? 

• CHECKOUT (noun)
  The noun CHECKOUT has 3 senses:

1. the act of inspecting or verifying

2. the latest time for vacating a hotel room

3. a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases

  Familiarity information: CHECKOUT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHECKOUT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of inspecting or verifying

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

check; check-out procedure; checkout

Context example:

the pilot ran through the check-out procedure

Hypernyms ("checkout" is a kind of...):

inspection; review (a formal or official examination)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "checkout"):

spot check (a check on work performance or product quality made at random times without warning)

Derivation:

check out (examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The latest time for vacating a hotel room

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

checkout; checkout time

Context example:

the checkout here is 12 noon

Hypernyms ("checkout" is a kind of...):

departure time; time of departure (the time at which a public conveyance is scheduled to depart from a given point of origin)

Derivation:

check out (announce one's departure from a hotel)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

checkout; checkout counter

Hypernyms ("checkout" is a kind of...):

counter (table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted)

Derivation:

check out (record, add up, and receive payment for items purchased)

 Context examples 

Several supermarkets have now introduced policies to remove these items from their checkouts.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

Within a year, after undergoing a checkout and validation of its six instruments, the new satellite will become operational.

(GOES-R heads to orbit, will improve weather forecasting, NOAA)

The researchers found that implementation of a checkout food policy was associated with an immediate 17% reduction in purchases.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

Next, they looked at data from 7,500 shoppers who recorded food bought and eaten ‘on-the-go’ during 2016-17 from supermarkets with and without checkout food policies.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

The researchers found that shoppers made 76% fewer annual purchases of less healthy common checkout foods from supermarkets with checkout food policies compared to those without.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

Many snacks picked up at the checkout may be unplanned, impulse buys – and the options tend to be confectionary, chocolate or crisps.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

The study found that 76% fewer purchases of sugary confectionary, chocolate and potato crisps were bought and eaten ‘on-the-go’ from supermarkets with checkout food policies compared to those without.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

In addition, 17% fewer small packages of these items were bought and taken home from supermarkets immediately after introducing a checkout food policy.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

Our findings suggest that by removing sweets and crisps from the checkout, supermarkets can have a positive influence on the types of purchases their shoppers make, says Dr Katrine Ejlerskov, the study’s first author.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)

Policies aimed at removing sweets and crisps from checkouts could lead to a dramatic reduction in the amount of unhealthy food purchased to eat ‘on the go’ and a significant reduction in that purchased to take home, suggests new research led by the University of Cambridge.

(Removing sweets and crisps from supermarket checkouts linked to dramatic fall in unhealthy snack purchases, University of Cambridge)