inspector Definition
in·spec·tor (in spek′tər)
noun
- a person who inspects; official examiner; overseer
- an officer on a police force, ranking next below a superintendent or police chief
- 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-tôr′ē əl
in·spec′·tor·ship′ noun
inspector Synonyms
inspector
n.
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.
Browse dictionary entries near inspector
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- ‹ insouciant
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- ‹ insomniac
- ‹ insomnia
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