What does Inspector mean?

Definitions for Inspector
ɪnˈspɛk tərin·spec·tor

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Inspector.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. inspectornoun

    a high ranking police officer

  2. examiner, inspectornoun

    an investigator who observes carefully

    "the examiner searched for clues"

GCIDE

  1. Inspectornoun

    A police officer, typically holding a rank one below superintendent, and in some cases in charge of several precincts; as, inspector Clousseau is investigating the case.

Wiktionary

  1. inspectornoun

    a person employed to inspect something

  2. inspectornoun

    a police officer ranking below superintendent

  3. Etymology: From Latin in- + spectāre, to look.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Inspectornoun

    Etymology: Latin.

    With their new light our bold inspectors press,
    Like Cham, to shew their father's nakedness. John Denham.

    They may travel under a wise inspector or tutor to different parts, that they may bring home useful knowledge. Isaac Watts.

Wikipedia

  1. Inspector

    Inspector, also police inspector or inspector of police, is a police rank. The rank or position varies in seniority depending on the organization that uses it.

ChatGPT

  1. inspector

    An inspector is an official or professional whose job is to examine, assess, or investigate something to ensure it complies with established standards, rules, or laws. This can relate to various fields such as construction, manufacturing, health and safety, law enforcement, education and many more. The term can also refer to a rank in some police forces.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Inspectornoun

    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

  2. Etymology: [L.: cf. F. inspecteur.]

Wikidata

  1. Inspector

    Inspector is both a police rank and an administrative position, both used in a number of contexts. However, it is not an equivalent rank in each police force.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Inspector' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3460

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Inspector' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2709

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Inspector' in Nouns Frequency: #1151

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Inspector in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Inspector in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of Inspector in a Sentence

  1. President Trump:

    Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!

  2. Adam Schiff:

    I applaud the decision of the Attorney General to request an Inspector General investigation, and the IG’s commitment to proceed and probe the abuse of the department’s investigatory powers against Congress and the press.

  3. William Barr:

    The inspector general's report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a William Barr presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions, that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken, it is also clear that, from its inception the evidence produced by the investigation was consistently exculpatory.

  4. John Brennan:

    Many aspects of their conclusions are sound and consistent with our own prior findings, over the years, internal agency reviews, including numerous investigations by our office of the inspector general, found fault in the CIA's running of the program. We have acknowledged these mistakes.

  5. Zoe Lofgren:

    You can imagine how shocked we were to get the letter from the inspector general saying that he had been trying to get this information and that they had, in fact, been deleted after he'd asked for them.

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