polygraph

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The number of professional polygraphers has increased 50% in the past five years, to 1,200.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the same, roughly 3,000 U.S. polygraphers now give between 200,000 and 300,000 tests a year.

From Time Magazine Archive

To a longtime employee of one of their clients, polygraphers will put such questions as: "Have you taken any money or merchandise?" or "Have you violated any company policies?"

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Indeed, polygraphers figure that as many as one-fourth of all major U.S. companies now subject at least some of their workers to the lie-detector test.

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In fact, Béroalde is one of the oddest of "polygraphers," and there is nobody quite like him in English, though some of his fellows may be matched, after a fashion, with our Elizabethan pamphleteers.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George