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单词 box-checking
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box-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.
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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.
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