inspectorate
inspectorate
Definition
in·spec·tor·ate (-it, -āt′)
noun
- the position or duties of an inspector
- inspectors collectively
- the district supervised by an inspector
inspectorate
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- merge: The cut and thrust of debate and development has covered everything from pay to targets, from assessment success to merging inspectorates.
- establish: He also established the first inspectorates of schools, the ancestors of your OFSTED.
- create: We announced in the Budget that we will create four new inspectorates to replace the current eleven.
Adjective modifier
- independent: CSCI is the single, independent inspectorate for all social care services in England.
- single: From April 2004, CSCI is the single inspectorate for social care.
- Welsh: This makes it hard for them to cover the national curriculum effectively according to a discussion paper from Estyn, the Welsh inspectorate.
- criminal: Second, a criminal justice inspectorate breaks with the principle of a tighter focus.
- nuclear: Wrong, replied the Director General of the UN nuclear inspectorate, the IAEA.
Modifies a noun
- report: The inspectorate report to the Secretary of State who will then issue guidance to Fire Authorities on what is expected of them.
Noun used with modifier
- prison: Prisons inspectorate issues critical report of HMP Doncaster, run by Serco.
- justice: Now the Home Office plans to merge the body into a wider justice inspectorate.
- weapon: Through such measures, the Iraqi leadership was deprived of any incentive to comply with the weapons inspectorate.
- planning: HJ Banks, of County Durham, last night said they had submitted an appeal to the planning inspectorate.
- railroad: The railroad inspectorate has passed the design for the down loop.
- housing: To support work on improving housing conditions, the ODPM will establish a single housing inspectorate to drive up standards in housing provision.
Possessives
- school: The review was carried out by Jim Rose, a former director of inspections at England's schools ' inspectorate, Ofsted.
Preposition: of
- constabulary: The success of joint procurement shows that the approach outlined in Her Majesty's inspectorate of constabulary 's document " What price policing?
Preposition: for
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