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inspectioneer

inspectioneer noun: one who carries out an inspection; an inspector.

Noun (1)

inspectioneer (plural inspectioneers)

  1. (nonstandard) One who carries out an inspection; an inspector.
    • Javert was the very incarnation of devotion to duty, fictionally, but he was an unstable character compared to some of our inspectioneers in government.1946, United States. Congress, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates..., page 10654
    • But linguistic “inspectioneers” who take the trouble of comparing Murray and Bradley's account of the word with that of Webster must wonder why the latter ignored or refused to follow the New English Dictionary's lead.1969, Adriaan Jacob Barnouw, Monthly Letters on the Culture and History of the Netherlands, page 275

Noun (2)

inspectioneer (plural inspectioneers)

  1. Synonym of specksioneer (“chief harpooner”).
    • He said that all the ship's provisions and stores would be locked up, and the keys given to the inspectioneer […]1922, Charles Edward Smith, From the Deep of the Sea, page 55
    • His grandfather had used it to hunt the Greenland whale in the days when the whaling-ships came to the islands for their best inspectioneers.1958, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 283, page 9
    Synonyms:
    specksioneer

Synonyms of inspectioneer

Forms of inspectioneer

pluralinspectioneers

Origin of inspectioneer

From inspection + -eer.

By mistaken association with inspection.

Questions about inspectioneer

What does inspectioneer mean?
Inspectioneer means one who carries out an inspection; an inspector.
What part of speech is inspectioneer?
Inspectioneer is a noun.
What is the plural of inspectioneer?
The plural of inspectioneer is inspectioneers.

Words near inspectioneer in the dictionary

  1. inspectings
  2. inspection
  3. inspection pit
  4. inspection pits
  5. inspectional
  6. inspectioneer
  7. inspectioneers
  8. inspectionism
  9. inspectionist
  10. inspectionists
  11. inspections

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