hearing examiner

1. 1.

   an official appointed by a government agency to conduct an investigation or administrative hearing so that the agency can exercise its statutory powers

   Synonymshearing officer

   Broaderofficial

Questions about hearing examiner

What does hearing examiner mean?

hearing examiner means "an official appointed by a government agency to conduct an investigation or administrative hearing so that the agency can exercise its statutory powers".

What is another word for hearing examiner?

Close synonyms include hearing officer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hearing examiner a common word?

hearing examiner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.