scrutineer

plural scrutineers

1. hobbiesA person who scrutinises; a person responsible for scrutineering.

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   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”).

   2020 September 7, Cory Doctorow, “IP”, in Locus Magazine

2. CanadaelectionsA poll-watcher.
3. CanadaA person who observes any process which requires rigorous oversight.

present singular third person scrutineers · participle present scrutineering · participle past scrutineered · past scrutineered

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