Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BOX-TICKING

Definitions of BOX-TICKING

1. (British) The completion of a form containing multiple-choice questions in which one or more boxes need to be ticked by way of an answer.
2. (British, figurative, by extension) Completion of bureaucratic processes of little practical use.

Examples of Using BOX-TICKING in a Sentence

• The Telegraph film critic Robbie Collin disapproved of the test as prizing "box-ticking and stat-hoarding over analysis and appreciation", and suggested that the underlying problem of the lack of well-drawn female characters in film ought to be a topic of discourse, rather than individual films failing or passing the Bechdel test.

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