[U] (formal) careful and thorough examination:
Her argument doesn't really stand up to scrutiny. * Foreign policy has come under close scrutiny recently. * The documents should be available for public scrutiny. * The situation is bound to come under the scrutiny of the public health authorities.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for scrutiny is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is scrutiny a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, scrutiny is tagged as noun.
Does scrutiny appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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