CHECK-IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does check-in mean? 

• CHECK-IN (noun)
  The noun CHECK-IN has 1 sense:

1. the act of reporting your presence (as at an airport or a hotel)

  Familiarity information: CHECK-IN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHECK-IN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of reporting your presence (as at an airport or a hotel)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("check-in" is a kind of...):

arrival (the act of arriving at a certain place)

Derivation:

check in (announce one's arrival, e.g. at hotels or airports)

 Context examples 

Document management systems commonly provide check-in, check-out, storage and retrieval of electronic documents often in the form of word processor files and the like.

(Document Management System, NCI Thesaurus)