tick box

See also: tickbox

English

Alternative forms

• tickbox

Noun

tick box (plural tick boxes)

1. A small space on a form in which a tick or cross may be placed as a response.
   • 2021 October 20, Stefanie Foster, “Comment: How to win leisure travellers”, in RAIL, number 942, page 3:

     There was a simple tick-box option to book a hire car on the island.

Synonyms

• checkbox
• ticky box

Hypernyms

• box

See also

• ☐
• box-ticking
• tick all the boxes

References

• “tick box”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.