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Scrutineer

//ˈskɹuː.tɪn.ɪə(ɹ)// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    someone who examines votes at an election wordnet
  3. 3
    A poll-watcher. Canada
  4. 4
    A person who observes any process which requires rigorous oversight. Canada
Verb
  1. 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

Etymology

Etymology 1

From scrutiny + -eer.

Etymology 2

From scrutiny + -eer.

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