inspector
noun
a person who inspects.
inspectors
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pluralof inspector.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Instead, the programs frequently alert companies before inspectors show up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
There are also 17 independent inspectors general, each with their own staff, finding inefficiencies in individual departments.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
Environmental inspectors who rushed to two fires discovered 318 tonnes of toxic industrial dust that had been stored for months in a chrome factory, AlbChrome, with no transfer contracts for its treatment or safe disposal.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
“We put in place agriculture inspectors and we put in place some laws and just think we go to the grocery store, there’s all kinds of milk. It’s all safe.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Reducing diversions even to 10 percent of total production, he calculated, would require a force of tens of thousands of inspectors fanned out across Russia’s vast territory.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
