double-check

double-check
{v.} 1. To do a double check on; look at again very carefully. * /When the last typing of his book was finished, the author double-checked it./ 2. To make a double check; look carefully at something. * /The proofreader double-checks against errors./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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