Scrutinise Meaning
/ˈskɹuːtɪnaɪz/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo examine something with great care.
verbTo audit accounts etc in order to verify them.
Sentence Examples
When writing a dissertation, it is important to heavily scrutinise your secondary sources.
He's know to scrutinise term papers.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The detective will ____ every clue at the scene to find the hidden truth.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The committee agreed to ____ every line of the proposed budget before approving it.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree English scrutiny English -ise English scrutinise From scrutiny + -ise.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;"
— 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 230b:
"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."
— 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023:
"But few MPs could claim to have followed and scrutinised Government transport policy to the extent that she has over the past decade."
— 2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in RAIL, page 31:
"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."
— 2022 August 10, Mel Holley, “Network News: Question marks over TransPennine upgrade spending”, in RAIL, number 963, page 24:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The detective will ____ every clue at the scene to find the hidden truth.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The committee agreed to ____ every line of the proposed budget before approving it.