Inspectioneer

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who carries out an inspection; an inspector. nonstandard

    "Javert was the very incarnation of devotion to duty, fictionally, but he was an unstable character compared to some of our inspectioneers in government."

  2. 2
    Synonym of specksioneer (“chief harpooner”).

    "He said that all the ship's provisions and stores would be locked up, and the keys given to the inspectioneer […]"

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specksioneer

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"Javert was the very incarnation of devotion to duty, fictionally, but he was an unstable character compared to some of our inspectioneers in government."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From inspection + -eer.

Etymology 2

By mistaken association with inspection.

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