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1. check in l into p.v. When you arrive at a hotel and arrange for a room, you check in or check into the hotel.
After I arrive in Denver, I'll go straight to my hotel and check in.
Jim checked into the hotel while I called home to check on the kids.
2. check... in p.v. When you arrive at an airport and give your ticket to an agent and receive a boarding pass, you check in.
You should check in at least two hours be fore your flight.
You can wait over there in the lobby while I check you in.
check-in n. The counter at an airport where you give your ticket to an agent and receive a boarding pass is the check-in or the check-in counter. The process of checking in is check-in.
Before your flight you have to go to the check-in counter.
3. check... in p.v. When you give your luggage to an airline agent so that it will be carried in the baggage compartment rather than the passenger compartment, you check it in.
That bag is too big for carry-on — you'll have to check it in.
checked in part.adj. Luggage that has been checked in or passengers that have checked in are checked in.
Now that we're checked in, we can wait in the boarding lounge.
4. check in (with) p.v. When you visit or call people briefly and regularly because you want to get or receive important information from them or to make sure that a situation you are both interested in is satisfactory, you check in or check in with them.
After surgery, you'll need to check in once in a while to make sure the bone is healing properly.
If Hank doesn't check in with his parole officer every week, the police will arrest him.
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1. check out (of) p.v. When you pay your bill, return your key, and leave a hotel, you check out or check out of the hotel.
There's always a long line of people waiting to check out at that time of the morning.
Mrs. Gorcia checked out of her hotel and took a taxi to the airport.
checked out part.adj. After you have paid your bill, returned your key, and left a hotel, you are checked out.
Okay, we're checked out; now let's get a taxi and go to the airport.
checkout n. The time before which you must check out of a hotel in order to avoid paying for another day is the checkout time.
We can sleep late tomorrow; checkout time isn't until 1:00 p.m.
1. check... out p.v. When you check a place or thing out, you inspect it carefully or learn more about it.
That new Mexican restaurant is great — you should check it out.
Hey George, check out that car Toad is driving. When did he buy it?
3. check... out p.v. When you check people out, you investigate them in order to learn more about them. If you say that people check out, you mean that the information they have given you about themselves, such as their education and work experience, has been investigated and found to be accurate.
Applicants for child care jobs should be thoroughly checked out.
Before you give that guy money to invest, you should check him out.
Frank didn't get the job he wanted with the CIA. Some things on his resume didn't check out.
4. check out p.v. When you check out at a store, you bring the items you want to buy to the cashier and pay for them.
The store's closing in a few minutes. We'd better check out.
Look at this line. It's going to take forever to check out.
checkout n. The checkout or the checkout counter is where you pay for items in a store.
You get the bathroom stuff, I'll get the groceries, and we'll meet at the checkout counter.
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1. go in l into p.v. When you go in or go into a place, building, room, and so on, you enter it.
It's getting too dark to play tennis. Let's go in.
Frank went into the kitchen to get a cup of coffee.
2. go in p.v. When something goes in or goes into a place, container, enclosure, and so on, it belongs there, fits there, or can be put there.
That dish goes in the cabinet next to the stove.
All those clothes will never go in this small suitcase.
3. go in p.v. When soldiers enter combat or an area where combat is likely, they go in. Pull out is the opposite of go in.
The National Guard was ordered to go in and stop the riot.
The marine shouted, "We're going in!" as he jumped from the landing craft.
Let in
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1. let...in l into p.v. When you let people or things in or let people or things into a place, building, room, and so on, you allow them to enter by giving them permission to enter or by opening a door, gate, and so on.
When the guests arrived, the butler opened the door to let them in.
The guard wouldn't let me into the stadium because I had forgotten my ticket.
2. let... in l into p.v. When an opening, such as a window, door, hole, crack, and so on, allows something to enter, it lets it in.
That small window doesn't let in enough light to read by.
The hole in the screen is letting the mosquitoes into the house.
