Meaning & use
check-in
The process of registering your arrival at a hotel, airport, or event before being allowed to proceed.
See it in a sentence
Check-in at the hotel starts at three in the afternoon and ends at midnight.
We arrived early so we would not have to rush through airport check-in.
A note on using this word
Write it hyphenated as a noun ("the check-in was quick") but as two words for the verb ("please check in early").
Words with a similar meaning
registration
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Another way to use it
2. noun
A brief conversation to see how someone is doing or how a task is progressing.
My manager schedules a short check-in every Monday to review our progress.
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