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say it: in-SPEK-shuhn
inspection is a noun meaning "a formal or official examination". It is pronounced /ˌɪnˈspɛkʃən/ — in-SPEK-shuhn. It carries one recorded sense.
a formal or official examination
“the platoon stood ready for review”
“we had to wait for the inspection before we could use the elevator”
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for inspection come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.