checkout
/ˈtʃɛkaʊt
/noun
1A point at which goods are paid for in a supermarket or similar store: [as modifier]: shelves near the checkout point often contain sweets, books, or magazines...
- The two girls on the checkouts near where it happened were quite shaken up.
- American life poses challenges for those who have not seen escalators, refrigerators, traffic lights, and scan-your-own grocery checkouts.
- Always up for a laugh when he worked on the grocery checkouts, Brian used to send his co-workers off around the building on wild goose chases looking for something that didn't exist.
2 [mass noun] The administrative procedure followed when a guest leaves a hotel at the end of their stay: any extra charges will be settled with guests on check-out...
- It's usually such a rush the next day with an early flight or at least a somewhat early checkout required in most hotels.
- We had walked in silence from the hotel checkout to the streets again.
- When I reported this to the desk upon checkout, they told me I should have told them sooner.