inspector
pronunciation
How to pronounce inspector in British English:
UK [ɪnˈspektə(r)]
How to pronounce inspector in American English:
US [ɪnˈspɛktɚ]
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- Noun:
- a high ranking police officer
- an investigator who observes carefully
Word Origin
- inspector (n.)
- c. 1600, "overseer, superintendent," from Latin inspector, agent noun from past participle stem of inspicere (see inspection). As a police ranking between sergeant and superintendent, it dates from 1840. Related: Inspectorial. Of the 18c. feminine formations, inspectrix (1715) is earlier than inspectress (1785).
Example
- 1. A policeman took the inspector to an inner room .
- 2. Last year , in an official report , sir mike tomlinson , a former chief schools inspector , proposed ingenious changes .
- 3. Here the central character is a pyongyang police officer , the likeable inspector o , who knows that in north korea mysteries are never solved , just absorbed into larger mysteries .
- 4. The device even fooled a building inspector .
- 5. It was only when an inspector appeared , asking why I was absent , that I realised something was wrong .