Other forms: inspectors
An inspector is an official whose job is checking standards. A health inspector, school inspector, the inspector called.
The power to arrive unannounced is what makes the job work, and scheduled inspections show a rehearsed version of a place. In the British police an inspector ranks above a sergeant. Note that the Latin means one who looks into, from specere, to look.
1nouninspectorAn official whose job is checking standards.
“A health inspector visited the restaurant and found mice in the kitchen.”
inspector is an official.
Latin inspector comes from inspicere, to look into — in plus specere, to look. Spectacle and species come from the same looking.
Latin
īnspector
English, today
inspector
Latin īnspector, from īnspiciō, equivalent to inspect + -or.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA