scrutiniseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

scrutiny +‎ -ise

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈskɹuːtɪnaɪz/

動詞

scrutinise (三人称単数 現在形 scrutinises, 現在分詞 scrutinising, 過去形および過去分詞形 scrutinised) (英国用法 spelling)

1. (transitive) To examine something with great care.
   • 2005, Plato, Lesley Brown, transl., Sophist, page 230b:

     Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;

   • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     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.

   • 2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in RAIL, page 31:

     But few MPs could claim to have followed and scrutinised Government transport policy to the extent that she has over the past decade.

   • 2022 August 10, Mel Holley, “Network News: Question marks over TransPennine upgrade spending”, in RAIL, number 963, page 24:

     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.

2. (transitive) To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.

アナグラム

• scrutinies, sinecurist