Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The office or duties of an inspector.
- noun A staff of inspectors.
- noun An inspector's district.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The position of an inspector; the duty or work of an inspector.
- noun A district under the charge or supervision of an inspector; specifically, one of the two larger administrative districts into which western Greenland is divided.
- noun A body of inspectors or overseers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Inspectorship.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An organized collection of
inspectors - noun The
office of an inspector - noun The
jurisdiction of an inspector
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a body of inspectors
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Examples
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The poor salaries in the inspectorate were a major problem, but this was not unique to the department, and better conditions would have to be negotiated through the central bargaining chamber.
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Justice's inspectorate, which is now awaiting further evidence from the lawmaker.
KI Media 2010
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The inspectorate is the only competent authority in Bulgaria that can assess the air worthiness of military helicopters and aeroplanes.
IAGblog 2009
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The inspectorate, which is under the control of the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA), is responsible for ensuring standards at residential settings for children and the elderly.
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The inspectorate is the only competent authority in Bulgaria that can assess the air worthiness of military helicopters and aeroplanes.
IAGblog 2009
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Now the firm has lodged an appeal with the planning inspectorate which is likely to be held in June.
icLiverpool 2010
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In March 1992, he liquidated the Russian tax inspectorate and created his own.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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He told the BBC's File on Four that the new inspections are "absolutely shameful, because it reduces the inspectorate to a toothless paper tiger, where nobody is physically going in".
Johann Hari: This Was My Grandmother. The Way She Was Treated in the Last Ten Years of Her Life Should Be A Scandal Johann Hari 2011
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The revolving doors between public and private sectors have, for instance, propelled Zenna Atkins from chair of the schools' inspectorate Ofsted to become chief executive of the private Wey Education, now setting up free schools, while Sir Bruce Liddington, former schools commissioner, is today director general of the private academy chain E-ACT.Companies managing privatised services have in turn become powerful lobbies for a bigger slice of the public cake.
Crony capitalism feeds the corporate plan for schools | Seumas Milne 2012
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By this point, local agents of the tax inspectorate, police, security service, and procuracy had been coopted by the governors, who supplemented their wages, found them housing, and in practice had a say in local appointments.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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