Scrutineer
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person who scrutinises; a person responsible for scrutineering.
"Those people coined the term “open source,” to stress the instrumental benefits of allowing others to scrutinize code: these scrutineers could root out defects and prevent the nefarious subversion of code to spy on or steal data from its users (there’s a saying for this, too: “with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”)."
- 2 someone who examines votes at an election wordnet
- 3 A poll-watcher. Canada
- 4 A person who observes any process which requires rigorous oversight. Canada
- 1 To scrutinise; to thoroughly check that an election is being run fairly, or that a vehicle meets the rules of a competition, etc. transitive
Example
More examples"Those people coined the term “open source,” to stress the instrumental benefits of allowing others to scrutinize code: these scrutineers could root out defects and prevent the nefarious subversion of code to spy on or steal data from its users (there’s a saying for this, too: “with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”)."
Etymology
From scrutiny + -eer.
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