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Webster 1913 Edition
Inspector
In-spect′or
,Noun.
[L.: cf. F.
inspecteur
.] 1.
One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer.
Inspector general
(Mil.)
, a staff officer of an army, whose duties are those of inspection, and embrace everything relative to organization, recruiting, discharge, administration, accountability for money and property, instruction, police, and discipline.
Webster 1828 Edition
Inspector
INSPECT'OR
,Noun.
1.
A superintendent; one to whose care the execution of any work is committed, for the purpose of seeing it faithfully performed.2.
An officer whose duty is to examine the quality of goods or commodities offered for sale.3.
An officer of the customs.4.
A military officer whose duty is to inspect the troops and examine their arms.Definition 2024
inspector
inspector
English
Alternative forms
- inspectour (obsolete, rare)
Noun
inspector (plural inspectors)
- A person employed to inspect something.
- 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:
- Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. […] There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]
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- (law enforcement) A police officer ranking below superintendent.
Related terms
Translations
person employed to inspect something
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police officer ranking below superintendent
Latin
Verb
īnspector
- first-person singular present passive indicative of īnspectō
References
- inspector in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- INSPECTOR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “inspector”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- inspector in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016