box checker
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who strives to live up to the expectations of others; a person who follows the rules and strives to achieve the conventional definition of success.
noun
One whose job consists primarily of administrative work indicating tasks that have been completed.
noun
Someone who is counted in an organization as representing a minority ethnic group but who is so assimilated into the dominant culture that their ethnic status becomes meaningless.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see box, checker. Someone or something that checks boxes.
Example Sentences
- "Unfortunately, appearing to just be a box-checker is a very common occurrence in today's fire service, and this results in a number of candidates actually failing an event, particularly the emergency simulation exercise."
- "For the box checker, reorientation is seen as overreach. For the box checker, originality is seen not looking before leaping."
- "Jane had pegged her for a box-checker who didn't give a twit about what she was actually doing."
- "Box checkers are the people who almost seem as if they're checking the boxes as they're talking , doing things out of obligation or suggestion rather than because they truly care ."
- "Sometimes we feel like we have to be the box-checkers of our lives. We make a list, and we don't stop until we check off every box. We strive for perfection."
- "I was a box checker, marching to the beat of effort/result, effort/result."