Definition of "checkoff" []

• Collection of dues from members of a union by authorized deduction from their wages. (noun)

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• "While I agree with raising the subsidization exemptions up to a point far short of doubling, to completely ignore the other "checkoff" group – seniors and blind – is absolutely wrong."
• "Bush's new proposal for an income-tax "checkoff," which would devote 10 percent of tax returns to shrinking the deficit, sounds gimmicky to cynical Washington ears, but it's exactly the sort of Perot-style starvation diet that deserves serious debate."
• "But the justices and the opinion of Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said that the campuses could adopt, if they chose to, some kind of checkoff system, whereby the students would checkoff those organizations they chose to support through their activity fees."