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interrogation
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Interrogation (also called questioning ) is interviewing as commonly employed by law enforcement officers , military personnel , and intelligence agencies with the goal of eliciting useful information. Interrogation may involve a diverse array of techniques, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Interrogation \In*ter`ro*ga"tion\, n. [L. interrogatio: cf. F. interrogation.] The act or process of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; an instance of interrogating; inquiry. A question put; an inquiry. A point, mark, or sign, thus ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "a question;" c.1500, "a questioning; a set of questions," from Old French interrogacion (13c.) or directly from Latin interrogationem (nominative interrogatio ) "a question, questioning, interrogation," noun of action from past participle stem ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply; "he asked a direct question"; "he had trouble phrasing his interrogations" [syn: question , interrogative , interrogative sentence ] a transmission that will trigger an answering transmission from a transponder ...
Usage examples of interrogation.
Islamabad, the first interrogation ended and he was delivered to agents Parr and Stern on the tarmac.
Yemenis found and arrested both Badawi and Quso, but did not let the FBI team participate in the interrogations.
November 11, the Yemenis provided the FBI with new information from the interrogations of Badawi and Quso, including descriptions of individuals from whom the detainees had received operational direction.
Bay--Juma al-Dosari, a Bahraini in his late twenties--had been under interrogation that yielded a disclosure.
Zack was undergoing personal interrogation over coffee and buns as well.
Otto and Pierre to kidnap this Philip Cardon and you then take him to Grafenau where we have excellent facilities for interrogation.
The following day Rosemary West, too, was remanded in custody there, and her interrogation at Cheltenham police station brought to an end.
In the interrogation rooms, you learned that biological humans were counted as humans, and that free converts were not.
In five minutes the dull noise of the curbstone market in Broad Street had leapt to a high note of frantic interrogation.
On the evening of September ninth, a pockmarked graduate student named Deccan Blendish stood in a crowd in Durbar Square to watch the first public interrogations of that season, a victory, if it can be called that, for a certain extreme faction in the school of law.
It endured the indignity of being leashed with the air of a prisoner enduring interrogation from the Deutsche or some equally fierce Big Uglies.
The first, which ended with the appearance, in convict prison, of generalised epileptic fits, was that of creative interrogation faced with the fact of illness.
Sabrina had ever been inside an interrogation room and what she found in Fribourg shattered the Hollywood image of four whitewashed walls with a table and two wooden chairs in the centre of a bare concrete floor and a single, naked bulb hanging from a piece of platted flex.
In postwar interrogations of Iraqi soldiers and officers, being without adequate food and water in the middle of the desert stood out as the first among various reasons that their frontline divisions collapsed in a mass of desertions, defections, and surrenders.
Atef and receipt of al Qaeda funds, see Intelligence report, interrogation of Hambali, Mar.