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
inspectornoun
a high ranking police officer
examiner, inspectornoun
an investigator who observes carefully
"the examiner searched for clues"
GCIDE
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
inspectornoun
a person employed to inspect something
inspectornoun
a police officer ranking below superintendent
Etymology: From Latin in- + spectāre, to look.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
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
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.
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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
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
Etymology: [L.: cf. F. inspecteur.]
Wikidata
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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Rank popularity for the word 'Inspector' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3460
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Inspector' in Written Corpus Frequency: #2709
Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Inspector' in Nouns Frequency: #1151
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Inspector in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Inspector in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of Inspector in a Sentence
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!
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.
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.
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.
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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- مفتشArabic
- inspektorCzech
- inspektørDanish
- επιθεωρητήςGreek
- inspectorSpanish
- بازرسPersian
- valvoja, tarkastajaFinnish
- inspecteurFrench
- cigire, banchigireIrish
- निरीक्षकHindi
- տեսուչArmenian
- inspekturIndonesian
- controllore, ispettore di polizia, ispettoreItalian
- מפקחHebrew
- 警部Japanese
- ಇನ್ಸ್ಪೆಕ್ಟರ್Kannada
- 조사관Korean
- inspectoremLatin
- inspecteurDutch
- inspektørNorwegian
- inspektorPolish
- inspetorPortuguese
- inspectorRomanian
- ревизор, инспекторRussian
- besiktningsman, inspektörSwedish
- inspekta, kacheroSwahili
- müfettişTurkish
- інспекторUkrainian
- انسپکٹرUrdu
- thanh traVietnamese
- inspectorYiddish
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