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inspector Definition

in·spec·tor (in spektər)

noun

  1. a person who inspects; official examiner; overseer
  2. an officer on a police force, ranking next below a superintendent or police chief
  3. a fire department officer in charge of prevention of fires, as in public buildings

inspector Related Forms

in·spec·to·ral adjective or in′·spec·to·rial-tôrē əl in·spec·tor·ship′ noun

inspector Synonyms

inspector

n.

examiner, checker, overseer, monitor, controller, auditor, reviewer, police inspector, chief detective, investigating officer, railroad inspector, customs officer, immigration inspector, government inspector, quality-control inspector; see also detective, examiner, investigator, policeman.

inspector Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • constabulary: Following this, Home Office inspector of constabulary Sir Ronnie Flanagan recommended massages in a report on Cambridgeshire police.
  • prison: But confrontation is not something the chief inspector of prisons shies away from.

Converse of subject

inspect: All carcasses to be inspected by qualified meat inspectors.

Converse of object

  • appoint: Four factory inspectors appointed to enforce the law throughout the whole of the country.
  • expel: The US government maintains that Saddam Hussein expelled the UN inspectors from Iraq in 1998, but this is not true.
  • obstruct: It is an offense to delay or obstruct an inspector from OPRA or to neglect or refuse to produce required documentation or information.
  • deceive: R: " He was systematically deceiving the inspectors.
  • authorize: At least once a year each grower must pass a stringent inspection by an authorized inspector.

Adjective modifier

  • un: From December 1998 to December 2002, no UN inspector was allowed to inspect anything in Iraq.
  • ofsted: Ofsted inspectors said Scope which supports people with cerebral palsy had been too slow to make Beaumont College properly accessible to 78 disabled students.
  • chief: Why was Hans Blix, the UN's chief weapons inspector, not given more time?
  • sanitary: In fact in the 1881 census Edward is listed as a sanitary inspector at Sedgley.
  • veterinary: The Food Act 1984 gave MAFF's veterinary inspectors the right to enter premises for this purpose.
  • unmovic: The Unmovic inspectors have been searching for evidence to back the British allegation.

Noun used with modifier

  • weapon: Why was Hans Blix, the UN's chief weapons inspector, not given more time?
  • IAEA: The IAEA inspectors know what the IAEA inspectors know and they don't know what they don't ' know.
  • hse: Some of these are enforceable by the local authority and HSE inspectors, others are enforceable through the courts.
  • detective: He also used a superintendent, a detective chief inspector and two detective inspectors on the probe.
  • meat: I am assured, by Monica Redmond that all those meat inspectors who have asked for a module have been sent a module.
  • arm: Beijing has repeatedly urged Iraq to allow arms inspectors to return.

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