Gabrielle has more than 20 years of experience in the publishing industry, from her entry into the field as a pricing analyst at Scholastic, to becoming a full-time editor and part-time writer. A third-generation reader of fantasy and science fiction, a love for the speculative is in her ...
The noun “checkout,” which means the act or process of checking out, was a single word (no hyphen) when it first appeared in the 1940s. This isOxford’s earliest use: “Advancement to radio operator ‘A’ may be earned by … training that must include checkout on several types of...