scrutineer
/ˈskɹuː.tɪn.ɪə(ɹ)/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.33 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person who scrutinises; a person responsible for scrutineering.
noun
A poll-watcher.
Canadian usage
verb
To scrutinise; to thoroughly check that an election is being run fairly, or that a vehicle meets the rules of a competition, etc.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Those people coined the term “open source,” to stress the instrumental benefits of allowing others to scrutinize code: these scrutineers could root out defects and prevent the nefarious subversion of code to spy on or steal data from its users (there’s a saying for this, too: “with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”)."
Etymology
Etymology tree English scrutiny Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -ārius Old French -ier Middle French -ierder. English -eer English scrutineer From scrutiny + -eer.
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˈskɹuː.tɪn.ɪə(ɹ)/