hearing officer

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 examiner

   Broaderofficial

Questions about hearing officer

What does hearing officer mean?

hearing officer 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 officer?

Close synonyms include hearing examiner. 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 officer a common word?

hearing officer is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.