1
: capable of being checked
a checkable story
2
: held in or being a bank account on which checks can be drawn
checkable deposits

Examples of checkable in a Sentence

all of the statistics cited by the news reporter are readily checkable, but it would appear that the article was never fact-checked before publication
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Chief among these is the famous P versus NP problem, which asks whether all problems with easily checkable solutions are also easy to solve with the right ingenious algorithm. WIRED, 29 Oct. 2023 For two years starting in March 2020, the M2 money supply—a measure of the cash and checkable deposits in circulation plus savings deposits and other easily convertible assets—grew at an unprecedented annual rate of 16.5%. John Greenwood, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2023

Word History

Etymology

(sense 1) check entry 1 + -able; (sense 2) check entry 2 + -able

First Known Use

1877, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of checkable was in 1877

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“Checkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/checkable. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.

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