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Inspector-General, The

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[in-spek-ter-jen-er-uhl] / ɪnˈspɛk tərˈdʒɛn ər əl /

noun

  1. a comedy (1836) by Gogol.


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The EPA’s inspector-general, the Government Accountability Office and the White House Office of Management and Budget all have announced probes into several of the earlier allegations.

From Seattle Times

In 1841 he was elected M.P. for the county of Oxford, and in the following year was appointed inspector-general, the title then borne by the finance minister, but in 1843 resigned with Baldwin and the other ministers on the question of responsible government.

From Project Gutenberg

Of these officers the following are the more important: the inspector-general, the quartermaster-general, the adjutant general, the surgeon-general, the chief of engineers, the chief of ordnance, the chief signal officer, the chief of the coast artillery, the judge advocate general, the provost-marshal general, and the chief of the bureau of insular affairs.

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