scrutinise

verb

1. (UK, transitive)To examine something with great care.

   “Because his opinions are all over the place, they find it easy to scrutinise them and lay them out;”

   “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.”

   “But few MPs could claim to have followed and scrutinised Government transport policy to the extent that she has over the past decade.”

   “Independent of government and the civil service, the NAO [National Audit Office] scrutinises public spending for Parliament and helps it to hold government to account.”

2. (UK, transitive)To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.