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investigation Definition

in·ves·ti·ga·tion (in ves′tə gā′s̸hən)

noun

  1. an investigating or being investigated
  2. a careful search or examination; systematic inquiry

Etymology: ME investigacioun < MFr < L investigatio

investigation Related Forms
in·ves′·ti·ga′·tional adjective
investigation Synonyms

investigation

n.

inquiry, search, research, probe; see examination 1, study 2.

investigation Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • conduct: Conducting an investigation of a body which is the subject of a local review 13.
  • pend: The court also appears to have taken offense, and has suspended the case pending an investigation.
  • undertake: Diploma students undertake a shorter investigation prior to writing a shorter dissertation.
  • initiate: Despite the seriousness of the comments made by the Employment Tribunal, the Chair did not initiate any further investigation into its findings.
  • warrant: The provisional data suggesting a link between bacterial load and the development of asthma since training as a dentist warrants further investigation.
  • launch: The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate has launched an investigation into what BNFL said was an ' inadequate ' reaction to the alarms.

Adjective modifier

  • thorough: Also, the thorough investigation of what happened in County Dublin by L.J. Arnold, was already in train.
  • archeological: This is in addition to finds discovered in the course of professional archeological investigations.
  • criminal: I'm asking you to cooperate in a criminal investigation.
  • further: Further investigations found a large number of bodies in mass graves in the old moat.
  • preliminary: Back to top Piped music Query: I am doing some preliminary investigations into the idea of having piped music around our school.
  • empirical: The artist's studio becomes a science laboratory, the creative process an empirical investigation.

Preposition: into

  • murder: In 1860 he was called in to assist the investigation into the horrific murder of 4-year-old ( Francis ) Savile Kent.

Modifies a noun

  • determinedfor: Internal investigation determinedfor to his file hands each player the only way.

Noun used with modifier

  • murder: This was one of the longest and most complex murder investigations Lothian and Borders Police has carried out.
  • fraud: Internal auditors typically do not have the training to conduct a fraud investigation on their own.
  • police: The DPP ordered a new police investigation last October.
  • accident: Accident investigations are being affected by lack of resources.
  • laboratory: Since there is no need for laboratory investigations such as typing and crossmatching, autologous blood is more quickly reinfused than donor blood.

Preposition: of

  • complaint: You can see that the investigation of a noise complaint can take a long time to follow through.
investigation Quotes

Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten paths; nor is there any better way to advance the proper practice of medicine than to give our minds to the discovery of the usual law of nature, by careful investigation of cases of rarer forms of disease.

—Harvey,William

  In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination, derives its collective interest from the vivid truthfulness with which the individual features are portrayed.

—Humboldt, Alexander, Baron von

The charge that an idea is radical, impractical, or long- haired is met by showing that a prominent businessman has favored it†an additional tactic in this strategy of defense†is to assert that Winston Churchill once sponsored the particular idea. If one is challenged, a sufficiently careful investigation will show that he did.

—Galbraith,John Kenneth