Associations to the word «Investigation»

Wiktionary

INVESTIGATION, noun. The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, especially patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist.

Dictionary definition

INVESTIGATION, noun. An inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities; "there was a congressional probe into the scandal".
INVESTIGATION, noun. The work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats