scrutineer
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of scrutineer
First recorded in 1550–60; scrutin(y) + -eer
Example Sentences
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Jon Chapman, independent scrutineer, said the force should "review its process when providing victims of rape and serious sexual assault with an investigative outcome".
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2022
You need, it seems to me, to move from parliament being just a scrutineer but to be active participants, and that means discovering parliament’s mind.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 10, 2019
This is the classic American desert, a frontier defined less by an absence of water than of oversight – what the great scrutineer of the west Mary Austin called a “country of lost borders”.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 16, 2018
The U.S. already has a permanent scrutineer of sorts for some kinds of political malfeasance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Such a man would naturally be the most jealous scrutineer of the pretensions of his son’s chosen wife.
From Cynthia's Chauffeur by Tracy, Louis
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