check and balance

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The mutual oversight provided by a system of independent organizations with control over each other. idiomatic
    — Whoever has taken a critical and serious look at human history will indisputably come to conclusion that man's madness and craziness know no boundary or limit even when check and balance of power are being applied.
动词 v.
  1. Provide mutual oversight and limitation by independent organizations in order to prevent abuses of power. idiomatic
    — A second distinguishing feature, Shackleton contends, is that the separation of powers also stresses the checking and balancing of one power against another, whereas the mixed state combines all interests solely to prevent or stall the inevitable degeneration of government, not to check power.

词形变化

checks and balances present,singular,third-person checking and balancing participle,present checked and balanced participle,past checked and balanced past checks and balances plural
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