check off

To put a mark beside (the name of a person or thing on a list) to show that it has been counted.

/The teacher checked off each pupil as he got on the bus./

/Bill wrote down the names of all the states he could remember, and then he checked them off against the list in his book./

Compare: TICK OFF.

Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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