inspector

noun

Definition of inspectornext
as in detective

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Recent Examples of inspector The human resources department cited telehealth providers, investigators and inspectors as examples of employees who fit into this exception. — William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 15 Mar. 2025 Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from March 6 to March 13. — Ian Wheeler, Orange County Register, 15 Mar. 2025 How do these firings impact air traffic controllers and aviation safety inspectors? Air traffic controllers were not included in the layoffs at the FAA, nor were other safety-critical professionals like inspectors. — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025 For more than two decades of his Air Force career, Senior Master Sergeant Frank Haupt was a safety inspector of our nation’s missile defense installations. — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inspector
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inspector
  1. detective
  2. investigator
  3. sleuth
  4. patrolman
  5. sheriff
  6. officer
  7. policewoman
  8. policeman
Noun
  • No one was in custody and detectives were investigating.
    — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2025
  • One of the men involved in the shooting was also struck by gunfire and taken to a hospital, where he was interviewed by detectives.
    — Julia Bonavita, Fox News, 22 Mar. 2025
Definition of detective
Noun
  • New evidence was gathered in November 2023, and both were arrested March 4, investigators said.
    — Kate Linderman, Kansas City Star, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Spiro said the investigators who approached Jane Doe did not coerce or threaten her.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 12 Mar. 2025
Definition of investigator
Noun
  • Creators on TikTok and YouTube post reaction videos every week, and amateur sleuths dissect backstage scenes for clues about upcoming storylines or character developments.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The family also posted online about their search — and amateur sleuths and local residents jumped into action.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 8 Mar. 2025
Definition of sleuth
Noun
  • Wambaugh, who joined the LAPD as a patrolman in 1960, made a splash with his debut novel, The New Centurions, a sweeping tale that followed three young LAPD officers during a five-year period that led to the 1965 Watts riots.
    — Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Caught in the middle of this controversy was Deputy Keith Farquhar, then a young patrolman.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2025
Definition of patrolman
Noun
  • Those agencies are the Wisconsin State Patrol, the New York State Police, the Newark Police Department, the sheriff's offices in California's San Diego and Orange counties, the Colorado State Patrol, and the Boulder County Sheriff's Office.
    — Chris Hacker, CBS News, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The sheriff’s office and an arrest warrant said Smith shut the cats in a bedroom and didn’t check on them or give them water for a week and a half.
    — Jeff A. Chamer, Charlotte Observer, 19 Mar. 2025
Definition of sheriff
Noun
  • Logansport Police officer Cody Scott and his wife, Kylie Scott, were both charged with two counts of felony child neglect.
    — Landon Mion, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2025
  • The officer questions him and checks his papers, then offers to drive him to the nearest train station — though the offer is to be taken to the station, or taken to jail.
    — Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 16 Mar. 2025
Definition of officer
Noun
  • In Andrea Gets a Divorce, hope turns into a whole set of emotions as a countryside policewoman yearning for a promotion faces a moral quandary after accidentally killing her soon-to-be-ex in a hit-and-run accident.
    — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Feb. 2025
  • But once there, an overly law – abiding British policewoman drags him deep down into the mysterious disappearance of a foreign billionaire, and the most complicated case of murders in his entire career.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 21 Feb. 2025
Definition of policewoman
Noun
  • The killers included white policemen, sheriffs, businessmen, even a legislator—all part of the Jim Crow system aimed at disenfranchising Black voters.
    — Essence, Essence, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Johnson further sent a thousand military policemen and two thousand Army troops to escort the march.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2025
Definition of policeman

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