investigator
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3.4
- noun
- /ɪnˈvɛstɪɡeɪtər/
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investigador policial
- I wanted to hire an investigator, but I couldn't afford to.
- a police investigator
- lead investigator
- criminal investigators
Can you have your state investigators go and look into this?
- Can you have your state investigators go and look into this?
- And it's weird being a death investigator's child.
- So investigators had Kohlberger's cell phone data.
- And I want to make sure that my criminal's smart and my investigators really smart.
- Who is this police investigator and all the kind of people that he encounters?
- I just, I I do it at night, but in the daytime I'm a crime scene investigator.
- If they didn't sue him, they'd have looked guilty, and another trial meant more lawyers and more investigators sniffing around.
- It was very common that controllers inside accountants, anyone who's dealing with the books, we, I'm a fraud investigator.
Examples
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Thus far, investigators are refusing to comment on the incident.
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Investigators are still working the scene...
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The last thing anyone wants is an investigator who is out of control.
Fiction book (1992) -
I have more important things to do than to meet some insurance investigator.
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Who is this police investigator and all the kind of people that he encounters?
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Can you have your state investigators go and look into this?
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Once the complaint is processed, an investigator will be sent out to look into the problem.
Fiction book (1991) -
And it's since then become the key question that investigators have asked in every presidential scandal ever since.
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Brendon was now a licensed private investigator, taking only cases that interested him.
Fiction book (1992) -
The police investigator interviewed several witnesses to gather information about the crime.
Synonyms
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2.7
A police officer who investigates crimes and finds out what happened
64
3.7
A person hired to find facts about crimes or private matters who is not a police officer
30
3.4
A person who is not a police officer and is paid to investigate crimes
27
2.7
A police officer who investigates crimes and collects evidence
24
4.2
A person hired to find out information for someone, often about crimes
14
5.6
A person who investigates crimes and follows clues
13
3.7
A person hired to find missing people or information
5
8.4
A detective who works quietly and follows people to find facts
3
9.9
A police officer who investigates crimes and finds who did them
1
6.3
A person or machine that closely examines things to find problems
A person who carefully follows clues to solve mysteries
A private detective hired to find information for people or businesses
Compounds
64
3.7
A person hired to find facts about crimes or private matters who is not a police officer
How Investigative
Surface Forms
Morphology
investigator = investigate (transparent) = investigate + or
Clear agent-noun formation from the verb 'investigate' with the productive suffix '-or', meaning 'a person who investigates'.
Etymology
Investigator comes from the Latin investigare, which meant 'to search' or 'to track'. So a police investigator is someone who 'tracks' clues and evidence to find out what happened.