The Collaborative International Dictionary
investigatory \investigatory\ adj. Of or pertaining to an investigation; accomplished by investigation; designed to find information or ascertain facts; as, investigatory committee; the investigatory excesses of the prosecutor.
Syn: fact-finding, investigative.
Wiktionary
a. Aimed at investigate; investigative.
WordNet
adj. designed to find information or ascertain facts; "a fact-finding committee"; "investigative reporting" [syn: fact-finding, investigative]
Usage examples of "investigatory".
Mason explained that he was no longer doing investigatory work, that he was now a legitimate gallery owner, and he would have gone on making excuses if Bodo hadn't dropped a five-figure fee into the conversation.
The next investigatory step was a complete paper chase: men capable of making dentures cross-probed against “tall, middle-aged,” “grayhaired,” “O+ blood” and time frame opportunity.
Both investigatory forks proved moot when Coates, Jones and Fontaine escaped from jail and were gunned down by our aforementioned hero: LAPD Sergeant Edmund Exley.
Before he sent his completed lesson to his instructor at the National Correspondence School for Private Detecting and Investigatory Acumen (NCSPDIA), he'd have to write up something to cover his period of unconsciousness, borrowing a few phrases from Lesson Eleven: Creative Invoicing.
So why not use your investigatory drugs on this jerk and get to the bottom of it?
Next came the pitch to break sealed files for investigatory use in multiple homicides.
He lays out a dizzying spiel on crime-scene containment, evidence chains, and the need to recognize the media magnitude of celebrity murders at the outset, think them through from an adversarial attorney's perspective, and evaluate and define every investigatory aspect as they progress.
Then they dump the boring, pedantic GSV that happened to be on the Incident Coordinating Rota, agree to wait-and-see with the Excession itself while sending investigatory reinforcements, start a localised mobilisation - mobilisation!
The next investigatory step was a complete paper chase: men capable of making dentures cross-probed against “.
You see, we could only get personal freedom by eliminating the investigatory arms of government, and I'm here to see that they do not get reestablished, that nobody starts using against the people the information stored in the computers and their capabilities for intrusion and manipulation.