subexaminer

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

sub- +‎ examiner

Noun[edit]

subexaminer (plural subexaminers)

  1. A lesser or subsidiary examiner.
    • 1940, United States. Congress Senate, Hearings, volume 2, page 695:
      [] and the profession must never drop to the point where its members are in demand primarily because their opinions will change whenever a subexaminer, for reasons not put on the record, wishes a different arrangement of figures.