Meaning & use
re-inspection
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Meanings
nouncountable or uncountable
An official check of something that has already been checked once, usually to make sure a problem has been fixed.
Grammar: Countable when you mean one check: a re-inspection; uncountable when you mean the activity: after re-inspection.
Patterns
- a re-inspection of something
- carry out a re-inspection
- pass/fail a re-inspection
- due for re-inspection
The kitchen failed its first check and is now due for re-inspection next week.
After re-inspection, the building was allowed to reopen.
The report lists three faults found during the re-inspection.
nouncountable or uncountable
A second look at a piece of work, a product, or a document to check it for mistakes.
Grammar: Often used in work contexts with of: a re-inspection of the figures.
Patterns
- a re-inspection of something
- do a quick re-inspection
Please do a re-inspection of the invoices before we send them.
A careful re-inspection of the data revealed two typing errors.
Word forms
| plural | re-inspections |
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Common combinations
- carry out a re-inspection
- Officials will carry out a re-inspection of the site in June.
- fail a re-inspection
- The restaurant failed a re-inspection and stayed closed.
- a re-inspection report
- The re-inspection report is attached to this email.
- due for re-inspection
- All lifts are due for re-inspection every six months.
- after re-inspection
- After re-inspection, the vehicle was passed as safe.
Synonyms and how they differ
- follow-up inspection
- A more general phrase; it can mean any later check, while re-inspection stresses that the same thing is being checked again.
- review
- Review is wider and often less official; a re-inspection is usually a formal, rule-based check.
Word family
- inspection noun
- A first or general official check of something.
- inspect verb
- To look at something carefully and officially.
- inspector noun
- The person whose job is to carry out inspections.
- re-inspect verb
- To check something officially for a second time.
Commonly confused: re-inspection or reinspection?
re-inspection vs reinspection
The same word without a hyphen. Both are correct, but re-inspection is easier to read and more common in British writing.
Practice
The restaurant failed its health check, so it is now ___ re-inspection.
Choose one answer.
'Due for' means something is expected or scheduled to happen: due for re-inspection. 'Due to' means 'because of' and would make the sentence meaningless here.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “re-inspection”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.