checkpoint

American  

[chek-point] / ˈtʃɛkˌpɔɪnt /

noun

• checkpoints
  plural

1. a place along a road, border, etc., where travelers are stopped for inspection.

2. a point or item, especially in a procedure, for notation, inspection, or confirmation.

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checkpoint British  

/ ˈtʃɛkˌpɔɪnt /

noun

1. a place, as at a frontier or in a motor rally, where vehicles or travellers are stopped for official identification, inspection, etc

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• checkpoints
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of checkpoint

First recorded in 1935–40; check ¹ + point

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

checkpoint checkpoints

After crossing the border, Bolsonaro’s vehicle was escorted by Argentina’s airport security police to the immigration checkpoint at Iguazú Falls International Airport.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

This enzyme acts as an important checkpoint, helping determine how much fat can enter mitochondria for use as fuel.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

The Israeli military said soldiers had rushed to the Judea Junction area, also known as the Farsh al-Hawa checkpoint, after the early-morning shooting attack.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Moderna believes that the vaccine can be used for any patient who can be treated with Keytruda and other immunotherapies, which are known as PD-1s or checkpoint inhibitors.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

We pass the first checkpoint without saying anything further.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

These stable arrangements serve as molecular checkpoints, narrowing the enormous number of possible assembly routes into a much smaller set of successful pathways.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026

“Everywhere checkpoints work, intismeran should be able to work,” David Berman, Moderna’s chief development officer, said last month at an investor conference, according to an AlphaSense transcript.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

The gates blocking it, and the security checkpoints along its flanks, will dramatically limit the public’s desire to enter, and change the tenor and experience of a space that should feel porous and inclusive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

We travelled with government forces from Taiz through checkpoints to the line where their control ends and no man's land begins, in order to see the fighting up close.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

He talked about China for more than half a day, explaining where to cross the Tumen and how to behave at the checkpoints near the border.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden

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