double check

1. 1.

   something that checks the correctness of a previous check

   Synonymscountercheck

   Broaderassay

Questions about double check

What does double check mean?

double check means "something that checks the correctness of a previous check".

What is another word for double check?

Close synonyms include countercheck. 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 double check a common word?

double check 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.