Usually means: System to prevent power abuse.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word checks and balances:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. checks and balances: Merriam-Webster
  2. checks and balances: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. checks and balances: Collins English Dictionary
  4. checks and balances: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. checks and balances: Wiktionary
  6. checks and balances: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. checks and balances: Dictionary.com
  8. Checks and Balances (organization), Checks and Balances, Checks and balances: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. checks and balances: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. checks and balances: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. checks and balances: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Checks and balances: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. checks and balances: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Political (No longer online)
  2. checks and balances: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. checks and balances: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (checks and balances)

noun:  (politics) A system for multiple branches of government wherein each has some control over the actions of each of the others.
noun:  (figurative) Somebody or something that ensures a system remains safe, honest, etc.

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