INSPECT


Meaning of INSPECT in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪnspekt ]

( inspects, inspecting, inspected)

Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.

1.

If you inspect something, you look at every part of it carefully in order to find out about it or check that it is all right.

Elaine went outside to inspect the playing field...

= examine

VERB : V n

• in‧spec‧tion

(inspections)

He had completed his inspection of the doors...

N-VAR

2.

When an official inspects a place or a group of people, they visit it and check it carefully, for example in order to find out whether regulations are being obeyed.

The Public Utilities Commission inspects us once a year...

VERB : V n

• in‧spec‧tion

Officers making a routine inspection of the vessel found fifty kilograms of the drug.

N-VAR

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