scrutineer

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English

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Etymology

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From scrutiny +‎ -eer.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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scrutineer (plural scrutineers)

  1. (now chiefly motor racing) A person who scrutinises; a person responsible for scrutineering.
    • 2020 September 7, Cory Doctorow, “IP”, in Locus Magazine[1]:
      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”).
  2. (Canada, elections) A poll-watcher.
  3. (Canada) A person who observes any process which requires rigorous oversight.

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Verb

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scrutineer (third-person singular simple present scrutineers, present participle scrutineering, simple past and past participle scrutineered)

  1. (transitive) To scrutinise; to thoroughly check that an election is being run fairly, or that a vehicle meets the rules of a competition, etc.

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