inspectorship

American  

[in-spek-ter-ship] / ɪnˈspɛk tərˌʃɪp /

noun

inspectorships plural

1. the role, position, or duties of an inspector.

---

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• inspectorships
  plural

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

inspectorship inspectorships

Following the trail of a prussic acid theft, Sergeant Bell of Scotland Yard blunders his way into an inspectorship, following his self-denied solution of the crime.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even his parents were willing that he should accept it, and for two years Tom worked his way up to an inspectorship, taking a technical evening course in a college at New York City.

From The Boys of the Wireless by Webster, Frank V.

And they remained shut, both the modern school and the middle-class girls' school for months, because the Professor's quite illegal attempt to usurp the inspectorship was resented.

From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Baerlein, Henry

Here was a good reason for the last; but in the course of his inspectorship he had given many stronger which all told in a contrary direction; and these he was now to hear. 

From Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Stevenson, Robert Louis

Formerly the inspectorship in Harvard College was held by one of the members of the College government.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer

The few "plums" of the profession are the inspectorships of the Government and of the more important education committees.

From Women Workers in Seven Professions by Morley, Edith J.

The sale of offices, of justice, of collectorships of taxes, of the administration, of the army, of the public domain, was only less onerous than the sale of monopolies and inspectorships of markets and ports.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

Candidates for these inspectorships must have had considerable administrative experience.

From Women Workers in Seven Professions by Morley, Edith J.