scrutinise
/ˈskɹuːtɪnaɪz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.24 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;"
- "Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month."
- "But few MPs could claim to have followed and scrutinised Government transport policy to the extent that she has over the past decade."
- "Independent of government and the civil service, the NAO [National Audit Office] scrutinises public spending for Parliament and helps it to hold government to account."
Etymology
Usage
- British usage
- Transitive verb