| 单词 | box-checking | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasbox-checking   box-checking  n. chiefly North American the action or an act of checking a box (sense  25b); (hence depreciative) the action of carrying out procedures purely to satisfy rules or regulations, rather than making a detailed investigation of the wider issues involved; cf. box-ticking n., to check all the boxes at  Phrases 11.Also (and in earliest use) as a modifier, as in  box-checking exercise, etc. ΚΠ 1963    1962 Ann. Rep. Legalized Games of Chance Control Comm. New Jersey 6  				Change Form 5A to allow for a box-checking system rather than crossing out portions not applicable. 1995    Atlanta Jrnl. & Constit. 		(Nexis)	 27 Dec.  				Many affirmative action programs have degenerated into racial and gender box-checking. 2012    E. Banks Risk Culture ii. 26  				Risk culture cannot be a box-checking exercise. < as lemmas | 
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