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inspector
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inspector \In*spect"or\, n. [L.: cf. F. inspecteur.]
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.
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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.
Inspector general (Mil.), a staff officer of an army, whose duties are those of inspection, and embrace everything relative to organization, recruiting, discharge, administration, accountability for money and property, instruction, police, and discipline.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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).
Wiktionary
n. A person employed to inspect something.
WordNet
n. a high ranking police officer
an investigator who observes carefully; "the examiner searched for clues" [syn: examiner]
Wikipedia
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.
The Inspector Guardian is one of the 16 role variants of the Keirsey Temperament Sorter, a self-assessed personality questionnaire designed to help people better understand themselves. David Keirsey originally described the Inspector role variant; however, a brief summary of the personality types described by Isabel Myers contributed to its development. Inspectors correlate with the ISTJ Myers–Briggs type.
Inspector is a 1970 Bollywood action thriller about an Indian terrorist who attempts to release a poisonous gas into the atmosphere. Directed by Chand, the film stars Helen and Joy Mukherjee.
Inspector is a police rank and an administrative position.
Inspector or The Inspector may also refer to:
- Inspector, a person working in the field of inspection
- The Inspector, a cartoon series based on the Inspector Clouseau character from the Pink Panther films
- Inspector (1956 film), a Bollywood suspense thriller film, directed by Shakti Samanta
- The Inspector (1962 film), a drama starring Stephen Boyd and Dolores Hart
- Inspector (1968 film), an Indian Malayalam film
- Inspector (1970 film), a Bollywood action thriller film
- The Inspector, a 1973 collection of drawings by The New Yorker cartoonist Saul Steinberg
- Inspector (role variant), a personality type in the Keirsey Temperament Sorter
- Inspector window, a type of computing window
- Inspector (band), a Mexican music band, which fuses ska and reggae with Mexican rhythms
- Inspector (Chalcostephia flavifrons), a species of dragonfly
The band Inspector (from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) fuses classic Jamaican rhythms with the feel of Mexican pop.
Their style is a blend of ska, reggae, nostalgia for the 1960s rock-n-roll and the great romantic groups of the 1970s, in addition a romantic style of their own. They are part of the musical movement called the Avanzada Regia.
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Inspector is a 1968 Indian Malayalam film, directed by M. Krishnan Nair and produced by PIM Kasim. The film stars Prem Nazir, Adoor Bhasi, Thikkurissi Sukumaran Nair and Prameela in lead roles. The film had musical score by MS Baburaj.
Usage examples of "inspector".
The last time Faraday checked, Joyce had been married to a uniformed Inspector in the Southampton BCU, a dour Aberdonian with a roving eye and a passion for fitness routines.
I have no objection, Inspector, to your liaison with my daughter, if she accepts you, which of course she will after recent experience.
Inspector Cramer, Sergeant Stebbins, and a couple of others were in the dining room firing questions at Alger Kates.
Otherwise than this, what is there in the official regulations of the bureau governing meat inspection to prevent such use of the flesh of diseased animals as the inspector may authorize?
Present are Inspector Rutger Verhoeven of Interpol, Agent Ronald Groote of the Schiphol Airport Police, and Banbury Edward Strachan of 27a Tachbrook Street, London.
Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks paused over his holdall, wondering whether he should take the leather jacket or the Windcheater.
But since the attack on Maryville, only weeks before, the inspectors had come frequently to look for the bees, and they had taken several colonies away with them.
The man steepled his fingers at me, bowed perfunctorily, and released a veritable tirade of Bengali at the dripping Inspector.
For the present, the accusation against you is that you committed an act of armed banditry, lying in wait for two police officers, firing shots from ambush, gravely wounding Inspector Bianchi, whom I may tell you is still between life and death in hospital, and slightly wounding Inspector Castang here present.
They had taken a chairway but it was too slow for the inspector and he bounded along like a rabbit from chairback to chairback, and Bill was close behind.
Border Patrol inspector William Dunn of the Chula Vista, California, station had been standing ten feet away when Gene Same was shot and had helped carry him inside.
Everyone thought that a citified luxury - everyone but the inspector, evidently.
Inspector shall appoint, and compared with samples, to see that it conforms to the standard, and is, in quantity and quality, as called for by the requisition or order of the Bureau for its delivery.
Giving evidence, Detective Chief Inspector Wilkes said that cowbane had been introduced into a spinach quiche by accident.
In the apartment of the German criminologist, Doctor Heinrich Zerndorff, Inspector Burke and Joe Cardona were discussing the murders of the night before.