(transitive) To examine something with great care.
2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. Stephanus pagination.Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;
2013-08-03, Boundary problems, Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
