inspector

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Alternative forms

• inspectour (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈspɛktə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈspɛktɚ/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Hyphenation: in‧spec‧tor

Noun

inspector (plural inspectors)

1. A person employed to inspect something.
   • 2013 July 19, Peter Wilby, “Finland spreads word on schools”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 30:

     Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. […] There are no inspectors, no exams until the age of 18, no school league tables, no private tuition industry, no school uniforms. […]

   • 2025 February 11, Jennifer Hansler, “USAID IG fired day after report critical of impacts of Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency”, in CNN‎:

     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. (law enforcement) A police officer ranking below superintendent.
3. (computing) A software tool used to examine something.
   • 2011, Adam McDaniel, HTML5, page 166:

     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; […]

   • 2020, Anatoly Belous, Vitali Saladukha, Viruses, Hardware and Software Trojans, page 112:

     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.

Derived terms

• detective inspector
• home inspector
• inspectorate
• inspector general
• inspectorship
• inspectress
• school inspector
• subinspector
• ticket inspector
• ticket-inspector
• wallet inspector
• weapons inspector

Related terms

• inspect
• inspection

Descendants

• → Japanese: インスペクター (insupekutā)

Translations

person employed to inspect something

Arabic: مُفَتِّش m (mufattiš) Azerbaijani: müfəttiş, təftişçi Belarusian: інспе́ктар m (inspjéktar), iнспэ́ктар m (inspéktar) Bulgarian: инспе́ктор (bg) m (inspéktor) Catalan: inspector (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 檢查員 / 检查员 (zh) (jiǎncháyuán) Crimean Tatar: teftişçi, müfettiş Czech: inspektor (cs) m Finnish: tarkastaja (fi), valvoja (fi) German: Inspektor (de) m, Inspektorin (de) f Greek: επιθεωρητής (el) m (epitheoritís) Hindi: निरीक्षक (hi) (nirīkṣak) Ingrian: revizora Irish: cigire (ga) m, banchigire m (female) Italian: ispettore (it) m, controllore (it) m Kazakh: инспектор (inspektor), тексеруші (tekseruşı), қадағалаушы (qadağalauşy) Kyrgyz: инспектор (ky) (inspektor) Macedonian: инспе́ктор m (inspéktor) Old English: inscēawere m, smēagend m Polish: inspektor (pl) m, inspektorka f Portuguese: inspetor (pt) m Romanian: inspector (ro) m, inspectoare (ro) f Russian: инспе́ктор (ru) m (inspéktor), ревизо́р (ru) m (revizór) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ѝнспектор m Roman: ìnspektor (sh) m Slovak: inšpektor m Slovene: inšpektor m Spanish: inspector (es) m Swedish: inspektör (sv) c, kontrollant (sv), besiktningsman (sv) c Tagalog: pandaw Turkish: müfettiş (tr) Ukrainian: інспе́ктор m (inspéktor)

police officer ranking below superintendent

Arabic: مُفَتِّش m (mufattiš) Czech: inspektor (cs) m Greek: επιθεωρητής (el) m or f (epitheoritís), υπαστυνόμος (el) m or f (ypastynómos) Italian: ispettore di polizia m Japanese: 警部 (ja) (けいぶ, keibu) Korean: 경위(警衛) (ko) (gyeong'wi) Polish: inspektor (pl) m, inspektorka f Portuguese: inspetor (pt) m Romanian: inspector de poliție m, ofițer de poliție m Russian: инспе́ктор (ru) m (inspéktor) Swahili: inspekta (sw)

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