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investigator

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Investigator may refer to: Investigator (magazine) journal of the Geelong Historical Society Clinical investigator , an investigator involved in a clinical trial Detective , a person who investigates crimes, can be a rank and job in a police department, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who investigates.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a scientist who devotes himself to doing research [syn: research worker , researcher ] someone who investigates a police officer who investigates crimes [syn: detective , tec , police detective ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Researcher \Re*search"er\ (-[~e]r), n. One who conducts research. In the field of scientific research, also called an investigator or scientist .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, a native agent-noun formation from investigate , or else from Latin investigator "he that searches into," agent noun from past participle stem of investigare (see investigation ).

Usage examples of investigator.

On condition of anonymity, I also spoke with a number of special agents and investigators who are still on active duty.

By 1993 the JTTF had grown to include forty investigators and agents from the FBI, NYPD, the INS, the FAA, the ATF, and the U.

CHAPTER 1 Private investigator Andi Wicksham stood at the edge of a double row of small holes aligned in a field with similar rows holding miniature winter-bare roses.

Local police had disappeared, Dutch investigators from Amsterdam had disappeared, but when American assistance personnel disappeared, America told the Antillean government that the United States would take care of it in another way.

Crime scene behavioral atialysis: another tool for the law enforcement investigator.

But the thought of turning over a blackened corpse and finding her rings on the charred fingers was still too much to bear for the moment And so he sat where he was, watching what remained of the Blackthorn steam and smolder, and waited for Investigator Topaz to wake up.

Tom Brown agreed to accompany the Clackamas County investigators into the wilderness to show them where the bodies of Hank and the dog lay.

I hired another cokehead, a so-called investigator named Rufus Cross, who kicked back half his fees to me.

William Corde, chief investigator in the case, shown here last March with his wife, Diane, and children, Jamie, 15, and Sarah, 9.

The four original Bothan investigators had long since left, replaced by a group of three techs busily pulling handprints and chemical samples from the various counters and cages.

We fought together, a long time ago, and we worked together when I was an Investigator at the Palace and he had a far cushier job at Palace Security.

Two previous investigators have been killed in inexplicable but unquestionable accidents, and Dasein himself escapes death on several occasions.

The tension between Dasein as objectively trained outside investigator and Dasein as would-be Santarogan convert provides a philosophical story line to complement the solution of the Jaspers mystery.

CHAPTER 10 The Blood of the Lambs Sometime between the late night of Friday the thirteenth in March of 1987 and midmorning of Saturday, March 14, thirty-year-old Nancy Newman and her two daughters, eight year-old Melissa and three-year-old Angie, were sexually assaulted and murdered in their own apartment on Eide Street in Anchorage, Alaska, in one of the cruelest and most brutal crimes the investigators had ever seen.

And quite naturally prosecutors and ethics investigators were more and more determined.