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HEARING OFFICER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hearing officer mean? 

HEARING OFFICER (noun)
  The noun HEARING OFFICER has 1 sense:

1. an official appointed by a government agency to conduct an investigation or administrative hearing so that the agency can exercise its statutory powersplay

  Familiarity information: HEARING OFFICER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HEARING OFFICER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An official appointed by a government agency to conduct an investigation or administrative hearing so that the agency can exercise its statutory powers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hearing examiner; hearing officer

Hypernyms ("hearing officer" is a kind of...):

functionary; official (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)


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