check up on

Questions about check up on

What does check up on mean?

check up on means "examine so as to determine accuracy, quality, or condition".

What is another word for check up on?

Close synonyms include check, look into, check out, suss out, check over. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is check up on a common word?

check up on is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.