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inspector

noun
/ɪnˈspɛk.təː/UK/ɪnˈspɛk.tɚ/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin īnspector, from īnspiciō, equivalent to inspect + -or.

  1. borrowed from īnspector

Definitions

  1. A person employed to inspect something.

    • Martin had served as inspector general since December 2023. While President Donald Trump fired inspectors general from more than a dozen federal agencies during his first week in office, the USAID watchdog had remained in place.

  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;[…].
    • After that, with the help of the disk inspector, you can at any time compare the status of programs and system disk areas with the original one.

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Derived

chief inspector, detective inspector, fire inspector, home inspector, inspectorate, inspector general, inspectorship, inspectress, school inspector, subinspector, tax inspector, ticket-inspector, ticket inspector, wallet inspector, weapons inspector

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for inspector. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA