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all present and correct all present and correctAll people or things being tallied are present, or their location or status is known or has been considered. Primarily heard in UK. A: "Have you finished checking the inventory?" B: "Yes sir, all present and correct."See also: all, and, correct, presentall present and correct used to indicate that not a single thing or person is missing. 1982 Bernard MacLaverty A Time to Dance She began to check it, scraping the coins towards her quickly and building them into piles. ‘All present and correct,’ she said. See also: all, and, correct, presentall ˌpresent and corˈrect (British English) (American English all ˌpresent and acˈcounted for) (spoken) used to say that all the things or people who should be there are now there: ‘Now, is everybody here?’ ‘All present and correct, Sir!’This is used in the army to inform an officer that none of the soldiers in his or her unit are missing, injured, etc.See also: all, and, correct, present |