| 单词 | checks and balances |
| 释义 | checks and balances in British Englishplural noun government, mainly US competition and mutual restraint among the various branches of government checks and balances in American Englishplural noun limits imposed on all branches of a government by vesting in each branch the right to amend or void those acts of another that fall within its purview Word origin [1780–90]This word is first recorded in the period 1780–90. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: carbon, carton, classification, seep, vampire batExamples of 'checks and balances' in a sentence |
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