inspector
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2.9
- noun
- /ɪnˈspɛktər/
- What are you, a kind of building inspector?
- safety inspector
- quality control inspector
- inspection by a inspector
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Watch on YouTubeSo we need food inspectors to make sure our food is hygienic.
- So we need food inspectors to make sure our food is hygienic.
- Chemical weapons that have been confirmed today by UN inspectors.
- Best summing up this, the outgoing prison inspector.
- He also talks about a customs inspector who is very severe with tourists or travelers.
- We heard from Karen Adriancer, an Ofsted inspector, about the variable standards of English and maths tuition for adults.
- When we sent a car inspector to view the car, we finally got to view it after being given a run around.
- FDA inspections of food, these inspectors have been fired.
- The person who took Ross Ulbricht down was a IRS tax inspector via Google.
- So in the first six months, we had more inspectors in our office and we had employees, right?
- If these farms if they decided that they were these peer review inspectors would certify the farms as organic.
Examples
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We learned this the hard way after one inspector had to open each container of used film.
Academic text (1993) -
Before production began, the students were told that a quality-control inspector would check the doughnuts.
Academic text (1992) -
When we sent a car inspector to view the car, we finally got to view it after being given a run around.
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Yeah, but I doubt a health inspector has ever been here.
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This is the day when an inspector comes to make sure our house is living up to community standards.
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I was working the swing shift as a quality inspector at Hanes.
Fiction book (2002) -
So we need food inspectors to make sure our food is hygienic.
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The school inspector is here to check the facilities and ensure they meet safety standards.
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Make sure you clean this place up because we have the health inspector coming tomorrow.
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The new safety inspector conducted a thorough review of the workplace practices.
Synonyms
162
3.4
A person who carefully looks at things to find information
100
3.1
A person who reads and checks the quality of a paper, proposal, or code
54
3.2
A person who watches others to make sure they follow rules
47
2.8
A person or device that checks if something works correctly
33
3.0
A person or machine that finds mistakes in facts, writing and products
8
4.3
A person who judges how good or useful something is
4
4.3
A person who judges how good or valuable something is
1
4.4
A person or tool that checks if information meets required rules
1
4.6
To look closely at people or groups to find wrong actions
1
6.3
A person or machine that closely examines things to find problems
1
6.8
A person who checks things very carefully, like reports or votes
1
9.9
An official who inspects places like schools or hospitals to check that rules are followed
Compounds
- Formal
75
6.0
A senior official in government or the military who checks investigations and makes sure people follow rules
How Senior
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word inspector comes from Latin parts in- 'into' and specere 'to look'. So an inspector is 'one who looks into' things, like a building inspector who checks that safety and rules are followed.