check up

What does "check up" mean?

1. To examine or verify someone's work or progress
2. To have a medical examination
3. To investigate someone's background or activities

Examples

• The boss is always checking up on the employees.
• I need to go to the doctor for a check-up.
• Are you checking up on me?
• They checked up on his employment history.
• Parents often check up on their children's homework.

How to use it

'Check-up' (noun) typically refers to a medical examination. 'Check up on' someone can feel intrusive or controlling. Often implies lack of trust.

Similar expressions

Opposites

Related phrasal verbs

• check in

  To register at a hotel, airport, or event

• check out

  To pay and leave a hotel

• check on

  To verify that someone is safe or okay

• get up

  To rise from bed after sleeping

• turn up

  To increase the volume, heat, or intensity of something

• give up

  To stop trying to do something, often because it is too difficult