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scrutineer

/ˈskɹuː.tɪn.ɪə(ɹ)/ UK

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noun scrutineers

A person who scrutinises; a person responsible for scrutineering. 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,
Canada A poll-watcher.
Canada A person who observes any process which requires rigorous oversight.

verb scrutineers · scrutineering · scrutineered

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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@misc{scrutineer_2026,
  title = {scrutineer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/scrutineer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}