“A check has revealed a significant projected overspend over the next two years.”
“Has natural photography really put a check on our airbrushed ideals of beauty?”
“We gasped when the check arrived as we did not anticipate that the meal would cost so much.”
checkers
(singular) A game for two players played on a chessboard; the players have 12 pieces each, and the object is to capture all the opponent’s pieces by jumping over them. Other European varieties have larger boards and more playing pieces.
(plural) the playing pieces in the game of checkers.