box checker

noun4

1. •
   A person who strives to live up to the expectations of others; a person who follows the rules and strives to achieve the conventional definition of success.

   • Sometimes we feel like we have to be the box-checkers of our lives. We make a list, and we don't stop until we check off every box. We strive for perfection. — 2017
2. •
   (disapproving) A person who follows instructions to the letter and avoids taking any risks.

   • For the box checker, reorientation is seen as overreach. For the box checker, originality is seen not looking before leaping. — 2021
3. •
   One whose job consists primarily of administrative work indicating tasks that have been completed.

   • Then the box checker would say, " Yep, has a Schedule B," and by the time somebody read it, they'd understand there was nothing in it. — 1992
4. •
   Someone who is counted in an organization as representing a minority ethnic group but who is so assimilated into the dominant culture that their ethnic status becomes meaningless.

   • We have a specific joke to talk about people, who are Latino that we know don't identify. We call them box checkers. — 2018