check and balance
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.65 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Provide mutual oversight and limitation by independent organizations in order to prevent abuses of power.
noun
The mutual oversight provided by a system of independent organizations with control over each other.
Example Sentences
- "A second distinguishing feature, Shackleton contends, is that the separation of powers also stresses the checking and balancing of one power against another, whereas the mixed state combines all interests solely to prevent or stall the inevitable degeneration of government, not to check power."
- "Since each branch had exclusive powers, separated powers did not mean an aggressively political process of checking and balancing of executive policy choices by Congress."
- "The Constitution achieves this checking and balancing function in several ways."
- "Rather, they should find their proper places in a dialectics of mutual checking and balancing toward forming a convergence and universalization of feelings."
- "As technology takes new forms, it brings new opportunities for corruption and hence demands new checking and balancing."
- "Whoever has taken a critical and serious look at human history will indisputably come to conclusion that man's madness and craziness know no boundary or limit even when check and balance of power are being applied."