Vet
vet (verb) - screen, examine, investigate, checked carefully to make sure they are acceptable, often a preliminary step before a final choice
[Note: Also an abbreviated form of veterinarian or animal doctor and also war veteran, someone who fought in a war]
vet candidates
vet applicants
vet investments
vet ideas
carefully vet
thoroughly vet
vet properly
vet for quality
vetting procedure
vet before
vet for
secretly vet
security vetting
vet tenants
Example sentences:
* I'm appointing you to the admissions council that vets applicants for places at university.
* A firearms control board would vet all applicants before issuing a guns licence.
* New security vetting procedures will be applied to all new job candidates.
* The company failed because it failed to vet its investments properly.
* "Middle-class ladies needed to vet prospective female servants; they could so easily be morally defective." (Source: British National Corpus)
* The assistant manager will vet the candidates before they are submitted for final selection, but I want final approval.
* Village leaders will vet ideas and dole out loans.
* Bring the dog to the vet. She looks sick.
* He watched me deal with the piglets and said he would call me when he needed a vet.
* The RSPCA took him on because his owners couldn't afford the vet's bill.
* She was secretly vetted before she was assigned this critical and sensitive assignment.
* All research must be thoroughly vetted before publication in our journal.
* In that country authorities supposedly vet all newspaper stories before they are published.
* The procedure for security vetting should be tightened up.
* Prospective tenants were carefully vetted by the landlord of this prestigious apartment complex.
