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scrutineering

scrutineering is the present participle and gerund of scrutineer.

Meaning of scrutineer

Verb

scrutineer (third-person singular simple present scrutineers, present participle scrutineering, simple past and past participle scrutineered)

  1. (transitive) To scrutinise; to thoroughly check that an election is being run fairly, or that a vehicle meets the rules of a competition, etc.

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Noun

scrutineering (uncountable)

  1. The duties of a scrutineer; the action of the verb to scrutineer.

Questions about scrutineering

What does scrutineering mean?
Scrutineering means the duties of a scrutineer; the action of the verb to scrutineer.
What is scrutineering the present participle and gerund of?
Scrutineering is the present participle and gerund of scrutineer.
What part of speech is scrutineering?
Scrutineering is a noun.

Words near scrutineering in the dictionary

  1. scrutinates
  2. scrutinating
  3. scrutinee
  4. scrutineer
  5. scrutineered
  6. scrutineering
  7. scrutineers
  8. scrutinees
  9. scruting
  10. scrutinied
  11. scrutinies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scrutineering (page history and authors); scrutineer (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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