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- noun Alternative spelling of
tick box .
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Examples
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The 'More' button at the top of the interface reveals the Transit tickbox, which is capable of overlaying the various forms (buses, trains etc.) onto a regular map.
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Doctors today are increasingly being forced to work in a 'tickbox' culture - the treatment we give is determined less by clinical benefit than by diktat, largely as a result of Government imposed guidelines and growing supervision of our work.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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First, it won't let me login unless I do not click the "remember me" tickbox.
An LJ post about Twitter is exciting stuff pabba 2009
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Yet Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, last week outlined plans for a major upheaval of the service in England that are clearly motivated by both intense unhappiness with the NHS in its current form and a belief that it needs emancipation from the dead hand of tickbox-obsessed penpushers.
NHS reforms: Is Andrew Lansley's brutal surgery really needed? 2010
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The Bond trailers always seem to run through a standard trailer tickbox system.
Sunday Discussion: Killing the Experience - Trailers Showing Too Much « FirstShowing.net 2008
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Obviously this unacceptable to those tickbox t*****s - the Sarg and I recently wrote my interim review, in which we had to justify my poor performance in this area.
I Could Want You, But I Don’t. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2007
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They created tickbox unemployment, removed incentives for industry to start up, created a vast unemployment drain and made so many fundamental errors like selling off 400 metric tonnes of gold for nothing and investing in schemes which went bottom up.
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Subscribe to Comments add tickbox to comment form so commenters get email notification of new comments
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Wee Murph was the kind of boy for whom the 'easily distracted' tickbox had been added to school report cards.
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001
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Run Tidy on your file, telling it just to look for errors (tidy - e if running from a command-line; if you're using a GUI version, there should me a menu option or tickbox for showing errors only).
The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 Jim Tinsley
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