When an official inspects a place or a group of people, they visit it and check it carefully, for example in order to find out whether regulations are being obeyed. The Public Utilities Commission inspects us once a year + inspection in·spec·tion Officers making a routine inspection of the vessel found fifty kilograms of the drug
To examine readily accessible systems and components of a building in accordance with these Standards of Practice, using normal operating controls and opening readily openable access panels
If you inspect something, you look at every part of it carefully in order to find out about it or check that it is all right. Elaine went outside to inspect the playing field = examine + inspection inspections in·spec·tion He had completed his inspection of the doors