How to pronounce “check and balance”

Meaning

• [Verb]
• (idiomatic) Provide mutual oversight and limitation by independent organizations in order to prevent abuses of power.
• [Noun]
• (idiomatic) The mutual oversight provided by a system of independent organizations with control over each other.

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