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fact-finding

fact-finding

19 3.9
Sent to find out what happened and gather information
  • adjective
  • /fæktˈfaɪndɪŋ/
translation icon : de investigación
  • However, they divided up the fact-finding tasks and agreed to meet back the following week.
  • joint fact-finding
  • fact-finding mission
  • fact-finding process

Leo J Ryan then gets Jim Jones to agree for him to come on a fact finding trip with his staff to Jonestown.

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Examples

  • I have a couple of quotes from their interim fact-finding report.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Initiate a joint fact-finding process to handle complex scientific and technical questions

    Academic text (2007)
  • So we took a fact finding trip to China a few months before and we stayed at a, you know, a nice hotel.

  • Leo J Ryan then gets Jim Jones to agree for him to come on a fact finding trip with his staff to Jonestown.

  • I'm sending you on a fact-finding mission.

  • You went there on a fact-finding mission To determine if its government was responsible For the assassination attempt on President Lyman.

  • Perhaps one might argue that the Congressional fact-finding process was flawed in various ways.

    Academic text (2001)
  • It was a fact-finding mission in the lead-up to a war.

  • The Security Council has already expressed its support for some of the proposals, such as fact-finding missions and preventive diplomacy.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The government organized a fact-finding mission to investigate the effects of climate change.

Synonyms

investigative
vsfact-finding
179 5.1

Made to find out facts by careful checking

focuses on finding facts about a situation without stressing research methods
investigatory
vsfact-finding
  • Formal
5 6.8

Intended to find facts or information

serves to discover facts broadly rather than run a formal inquiry

Antonyms

288 4.8

A guess or idea made without enough proof

How Investigative

forensic
  • Specialized
171 6.1
fact-finding
19 3.9
investigative
179 5.1
detective
2.7

Surface Forms

fact-finding positive

Morphology

fact-finding = fact + finding (transparent) = fact + finding

A clear compound of 'fact' and 'finding' meaning an activity intended to discover facts, which is directly inferable from its parts.

Etymology

Fact-finding is formed from two simple words: fact ('a true piece of information') and finding, from find ('to discover'). So a fact-finding mission is like a detective search to discover what really happened.