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Definition of tick box in English: tick boxnoun British 1A small box on a form into which a tick or cross is entered as the response to a question. Example sentencesExamples - Appraisal is not a load of meaningless jargon sprinkled liberally across a ten page grid full of interminable tick boxes.
- Meet organizers are encouraged to put a tick box on the mandatory run report indicating safety acceptability.
- Form CIT must be attached to Form PN1 with the seventh tick box in Part 1 marked.
- How about having a small patient 'write in' box, so the patient can put in a few relevant words - maybe a tick box to say the patient gives permission without having to ask each time?
- The report also includes a questionnaire with tick boxes for each section and space for individual comments.
- I wondered if the registration form had a discreet tick box somewhere near the bottom, indicating that if all experiments went successfully, the organizers should not expect the attendee to return.
- They accept that a tick box on the form indicating that Residential Care Allowance could be claimed was not completed and not picked up by the council.
- "The tick boxes will ascertain information like the patient's age, blood group and important medical history."
- It was decided to include a Polish 'tick box' as Home Office statistics show they account for around 70 per cent of migrants from new EU member states in Eastern Europe.
- He's given us an ugly blue and red form full of tick boxes.
- Form A5 has a tick box in Section 3.
- She has created a leaflet with exercises and tick boxes for parents of newborns and has had it translated into 10 languages for use by the major immigrant communities.
- On the back of the leaflet is a tick box saying "I will be voting Labour in the election on Thursday 5 May".
- No space was officially provided for additional views, so residents wanting to comment further were left with little choice but to scrawl notes around the three tick boxes.
- Early indications are that customers are selecting that tick box on the option sheet.
- Since 2000, the application form has included a tick box giving customers the opportunity to have their name placed on the UK transplant register.
- Funding reparations should be voluntary and provided by a tick box on one's income tax return.
- Often many risk assessments are done on the same patient by different professionals, using diverse instruments, tick boxes and forms.
- There is a tick box on all of our contact forms whereby you may opt for no further contact.
- What's more, while they claim to stand against political correctness, they include a tick box for "Ms".
- 1.1Computing (in a graphical display) a small box that, when selected by the user, shows that a particular feature has been enabled or a particular option chosen.
Example sentencesExamples - I've now clicked every menu that I can find and checked that every possible tick box appears to still be in the correct state, but I still cannot solve the problem.
- Operating the software is simple using a series of tick boxes, many accompanied by clickable Help links.
- My browser isn't showing what the answers to the tick boxes are so I've left them all blank.
- The directory tree and tick boxes make setting up a backup job up very quick.
- Browsing to a team will by default bring up the 1st team squad, with the reserves and youth players brought up by a tick box in a drop-down menu.
- As before, ensure that all tick boxes are clear apart from the one for 'Attempt to use HTTP for all content' which should be ticked.
- Before firing up the program, it asks which file formats it should open by default, with tick boxes offering an impressive selection of formats.
- 1.2as modifier Denoting or relating to a procedure or process carried out purely to satisfy convention, rules, or regulations.
a bureaucratic tick-box exercise Example sentencesExamples - You are indicating that when it gets down to levels of changing behaviour, attitude and procedures, it is a tick box exercise.
- "Regeneration" in their constituencies is being reduced to "tick box stuff".
- There is a tick box culture for targets and I believe this has failed to deliver improvements to frontline services.
- I have often heard fellow students say that getting a degree is about 'playing the game' and doing what the university expects of you in a 'tick box' fashion.
- The presiding tick box culture allowed and even fostered suboptimal assessment.
- Among the topics were personal experiences of coming out at work, the tick box approach to dealing with discrimination and the need to continue campaigning and lobbying.
- On the other hand, it can be a tick box exercise to protect and to demonstrate that diversity is something within the organisation and the organisation is living up to expectations.
- They are lazy, they have been voted in and they have done it for tick box reasons, or they are only interested in the juicy bits.
- Training police on race relations is "often viewed as a mandatory tick box" exercise despite more than £10m being spent on improving standards.
- The point is that the semantics we use are not tick box mechanisms.
- A depressing catalogue of shortcomings is exposed in the 92-page report, which contends that writing skills have been devalued in the "tick box" approach of contemporary secondary education.
- The report's co-author said the "current tick box approach gives a simplistic and sometimes false picture of disadvantage, exclusion and inequality".
- Some councillors pointed out their Catch-22 situation of having to bow to a "tick box" government.
- "This tick box approach to equal opportunities has led to an inauthentic representation of who we are."
- It describes the new system as a "tick box" process that "removed the ability of the entry clearance officer to assess credibility of either the college or the applicant".
- Was it a sort of paradigm of good managerial practices, policies and procedures, functionally, or was it just a tick box exercise?
- Mathematics exams have become little more than a "tick box test" and fail to teach pupils the skills needed to gain good jobs, according to a new report.
- Revalidation by summative annual appraisal, with its sometimes mind-numbing tick box approach, is rightly perceived by Dame Janet to be ineffective in identifying underperforming doctors.
- Design is seen as being important but is inevitably assessed in the context of large bids in what feels like a 'tick box culture', where compliance and process will take precedence with targets and benchmarking.
- You get quite a few that do it for the tick box syndrome, because they have got to show evidence of their performance.
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