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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(nonstandard) One who carries out an inspection; an inspector..
Javert was the very incarnation of devotion to duty, fictionally, but he was an unstable character compared to some of our inspectioneers in government.
But linguistic “inspectioneers” who take the trouble of comparing Murray and Bradley's account of the word with that of Webster must wonder why the latter ignored or refused to follow the New English Dictionary's lead.
He said that all the ship's provisions and stores would be locked up, and the keys given to the inspectioneer […]
His grandfather had used it to hunt the Greenland whale in the days when the whaling-ships came to the islands for their best inspectioneers.
Use inspectioneer when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Inspectioneer means (nonstandard) One who carries out an inspection; an inspector..
Common synonyms include specksioneer.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Javert was the very incarnation of devotion to duty, fictionally, but he was an unstable character compared to some of our inspectioneers in government.
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