mark off
English
Verb
mark off (third-person singular simple present marks off, present participle marking off, simple past and past participle marked off)
- (transitive) To separate by or as with a boundary line.
- 1916, John Dewey, Democracy and Education:
- A society marked off into classes need be specially attentive only to the education of its ruling elements.
- (transitive) To indicate as dealt with, as on a list.
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