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  1. Vetting

    Vetting is the process of performing a background check on someone before offering them employment, conferring an award, or doing fact-checking prior to making any decision. In addition, in intelligence gathering, assets are vetted to determine their usefulness.

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  1. vetting

    Vetting is the process of thoroughly examining, evaluating, and judging something or someone for their suitability, credibility, reliability, or trustworthiness. It involves conducting background checks, reviewing qualifications, conducting interviews, verifying information, and performing various assessments to assess the competence, integrity, and suitability of individuals, organizations, or ideas before making a decision or forming an opinion about them. Vetting is commonly used in contexts such as hiring employees, screening applicants, investigating potential partners or vendors, reviewing documents, or assessing the accuracy and authenticity of information.

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  1. Vetting

    Vetting is the process of performing a background check on someone before offering them employment, conferring an award, etc. A prospective person or project may be vetted before making a hiring decision. In addition, in intelligence gathering, assets are vetted to determine their usefulness.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

  1. vetting

    A part of target development that assesses the accuracy of the supporting intelligence to targeting.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of vetting in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of vetting in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of vetting in a Sentence

  1. Ira Mehlman:

    It’s a huge danger. The numbers make it difficult to do the kinds of vetting that’s necessary and just the circumstances in Islamic State-occupied Syria and other countries, it’s impossible to do the big checks necessary, all while we have ISIS and other groups telling us they intend to infiltrate operatives through the refugee process.

  2. Andrew Finn:

    There is no way you can make it totally secure, you always have to think about the terrorist threat, although the vetting process for refugees into Canada is quite thorough.

  3. Evelyn Stauffer:

    The department has been operating in good faith and earnestly trying to comply with court orders, including the rapidly approaching deadline for reunification, our interpretation of the court's order is that HHS must make a determination of parentage, fitness, and safety before reunifying families, but that HHS need not undertake the fuller process of vetting for children's safety that HHS would ordinarily conduct in its operations.

  4. Jeff Clementz:

    We do not plan to lower our bar or change our vetting standards, our monitoring or management of sellers, we are aiming to attract the best from around the world.

  5. Jeff Clementz:

    You're going to go through the same vetting process that has a very high bar.

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  • Gary Novotny
    Gary Novotny
    A word used by the the British since at least the beginning of WW2 (closely verifying an individuals background), that has made it's way into the American english language (same meaning) within the last few years. 
    LikeReply7 years ago

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