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Answer for the clue "See Roman south of river making investigation ", 5 letters:
recce

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A recce of the area had shown that there was another airfield thirty miles from Sirte at Tamit. ▪ Charlie left his men resting in their tents while he set out to do his own private recce . ▪ During a recce , the deaths column ...

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n. reconnaissance (by shortening) [syn: recco , reccy ]

Usage examples of recce.

Ryan would have felt more comfortable with a proper skirmish approach, pausing now and again for the pointman to go on recce.

I was not getting down near the river, which was the original feature that the blokes on the recce patrol had gone to find.

Once the four recce patrols were assembled, we would become a fighting patrol.

Members of 6 Troop went out and did the recces, spent a couple of days putting OPs on it, and got all the information back.

They started saying they could do all our forward recces for us in dangerous areas around the world, but that was a load of nonsense.

We also taught them how to do close target recces on locations: to go in, try to get as much information as possible on the target without being seen, then watch it and, when the time was right, hit it.

Blanchard had been in the reconnaissance business for twelve years, mostly as pilot or copilot flying EC- and RC- 135 aircraft for the Strategic Air Command-this was only her second tour as recce section commander-and she had been dismayed at the new emphasis on space-based reconnaissance systems, or "gadgets" as she called them.

As the speed increased, the outriders let rip with shrieks that ripped across the quiet of the night sky, spurring their horses to a gallop as they headed off to recce the territory ahead.

First I recced the Caf‚ Leoni on the Corso della Repubblica, just off Piazza Cairoli, where a meeting was scheduled with Eric, and then found the Bar Venezia on Via Lata where I was to meet APOCALYPSE.

On the IONEC we practised anti-surveillance against teams from MI5's A4 and the Met SB in London on a couple of exercises, and recced two routes.

After a poke around the garden and outbuildings, as if recceing the lie of the land for a later arrest, they trudged back up the drive some 40 minutes after their arrival.