inspectorship
(ɪnˈspɛktəʃɪp)
[f. inspector + -ship.]
a. The office or position of an inspector; inspectorate. Also as a mock title.
| 1753 C. Smart Hiliad Notes, Poems (1810) 51 His Inspectorship has the most notable talent at a motto. 1757 W. Thompson R.N. Advoc. 52 He was not admitted to his Inspectorship of Dry Stores, till he had passed his Examination. 1864 Spectator 20 Aug. 970/2 As for a regular State inspectorship of endowed schools, we shall have it doubtless in Paradise, but not in this world. 1899 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 8 July 106 Inspectorships of public health. |
b. attrib., as inspectorship deed (also deed of inspectorship), see quots. and cf. inspection 1.
| 1861 Act 24 & 25 Vict. c. 134 §191 As to Trust Deeds for Benefit of Creditors, Composition and Inspectorship Deeds executed by a Debtor. 1883 Wharton's Law Lex. (ed. 7) 419/2 Inspectorship, Deed of, an instrument entered into between an insolvent debtor and his creditors, appointing one or more person or persons to inspect and oversee the winding up of such insolvent's affairs on behalf of the creditors. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 151/2 Estates, however, continued to be wound up under deeds of arrangement, whether in the form of an assignment, or composition, or inspectorship deed. 1959 Jowitt Dict. Eng. Law I. 980/2 Inspectorship, Deed of,..the repealed Bankruptcy Act, 1869. |