Definition of "spot-check" []

• Pick out random samples for examination in order to ensure high quality (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Smaller cable operators will have fewer obligations to spot-check their channels to ensure commercials are at the same volume as TV programs."
• "They'll be required to spot-check channels and make sure the new rules are being followed."
• ""What needs to be done is monitor the radiation levels in the evacuation zone and spot-check individuals there," said Paul DeLuca, a medical physicist who is provost of the University of Wisconsin-Madison."