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insp

insp is the abbreviation of inspection.

insp is the abbreviation of inspector.

Meaning of inspection

Noun

inspection (countable and uncountable, plural inspections)

  1. The act of examining something, often closely.
    • Upon closer inspection, the animal turned out to be a dolphin, not a shark!
  2. An organization that checks that certain laws or rules are obeyed.
    • The inspection fined the restaurant's owner because the kitchen was dirty.

Meaning of inspector

Noun

inspector (plural inspectors)

  1. A person employed to inspect something.
    • 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...2013 July 1, Peter Wilby, quoting Pasi Sahlberg, “Finland's education ambassador spreads the word”, in The Guardian, volume 189, number 6, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...
  2. A police officer ranking below superintendent.
  3. A software tool used to examine something.
    • Google Chrome has a built-in development tool called the Chrome Inspector. You can use it to examine the HTML elements in a web page; review what resources — or files, cookies, and databases — are active; follow network activity;[…].2011, Adam McDaniel, HTML5, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 166

Noun capitalized: Insp

Insp

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of inspector.

Forms of insp

pluralinsp
pluralinsps
pluralinsp's
alternative forminsp.
alternative formInsp.

Questions about insp

What is insp the abbreviation of?
Insp is the abbreviation of inspection.
What part of speech is insp?
Insp is a noun.
What is the plural of insp?
The plural of insp is insp.

Words near insp in the dictionary

  1. insouls
  2. insource
  3. insourced
  4. insources
  5. insourcing
  6. insp
  7. insp.
  8. inspake
  9. inspan
  10. inspanned
  11. inspanning

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Adapted from Wiktionary: insp (page history and authors); Insp (page history and authors); inspection (page history and authors); inspector (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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