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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
investigative
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an investigative reporter (=one that tries to find out about something important)
▪ Two investigative reporters wrote an article linking the CIA to cocaine trafficking in Los Angeles.
an investigative/investigating commission
▪ An investigative commission was set up immediately after the incident.
investigative journalism (=journalism that examines an event or situation in order to find out the truth)
▪ The hospital has been the target of investigative journalism.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
journalism
▪ This is not entirely the result of political control, since the privately owned press shows no greater inclination towards investigative journalism.
▪ It's an occupational hazard of investigative journalism.
▪ It is investigative journalism of a very limited scope.
▪ Thus, during 1984, investigative journalism had a field day.
▪ Perhaps I should take up this investigative journalism.
journalist
▪ She was thirty-two, an editor with a distinguished publishing house, married to an investigative journalist.
▪ A general privilege for investigative journalists?
▪ And Mark Thomas, 37, comedian and de facto investigative journalist, is nothing if not controversial himself.
▪ As I understand it, the London food commission is a consumerist pressure group staffed by academics and investigative journalists.
report
▪ Newsday, for example, had already won two Pulitzer Prizes for its investigative reports years before Watergate happened.
reporter
▪ Where were the campaigning editors and investigative reporters?
▪ Time also has worked wonders, pruning many of the bad investigative reporters and retaining many of the good ones.
▪ As an investigative reporter, Mundy does a terrific job of untangling this complex snarl of interrelated cases.
▪ Improper behavior by individual political actors or by government agencies is exposed and widely communicated by investigative reporters.
▪ As for the business with the docks, if that wasn't a case of drug smuggling, Hill was no investigative reporter.
▪ Who wants to become an investigative reporter? they were asked.
subcommittee
▪ If the two Democrats on the investigative subcommittee, Reps.
▪ Gingrich admitted to charges, brought by an investigative subcommittee of the ethics committee, that he brought discredit to the House.
team
▪ The attorney-general, Marzuki Darusman, said he would immediately form an investigative team to pursue the commission's findings.
▪ For nearly a decade, Robert Read has headed up the show's 10-strong investigative team.
▪ The Sheppard investigative team believes that Marilyn, two of whose teeth were chipped, bit her assailant.
technique
▪ There followed a reassessment of the two principal investigative techniques.
▪ New investigative techniques have opened up the black box of the brain and have begun to shed light on its inner workings.
work
▪ It's very easy to organise some investigative work by children on school meals provision.
▪ He was doing investigative work on that case, too, on Kennedy.
▪ However, 11 different modes of assessment were noted, including mental, practical, calculator, project and investigative work.
▪ Algebra is given a special emphasis as well as the application of Mathematics in the form of problem-solving and investigative work.
▪ The team felt it important to extend the evaluation to all investigative work.
▪ Small group work is ideal for investigative work using any of the four paradigms of software seen above.
▪ Another would be to note the skills and knowledge used when pupils were engaged in problem solving or investigative work.
▪ A group photograph can be the starting point for further investigative work with pupils at Key Stage 1 or 2.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Investigative

Investigative \In*ves"ti*ga*tive\, a. Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
investigative

1803, from Latin investigat-, past participle stem of investigare (see investigation) + -ive. Journalism sense is from 1951.

Wiktionary
investigative

a. Of or pertaining to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.

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WordNet
investigative

adj. designed to find information or ascertain facts; "a fact-finding committee"; "investigative reporting" [syn: fact-finding, investigatory]

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Usage examples of "investigative".

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After reviewing the case for complete ness, the profile coordinator forwarded the materials to the Behavioral Science Investigative Support Unit at the FBI Academy for analysis.

The Behavioral Science Investigative Support Unit has found that anyone seeking transfer into this highly special ized program must possess above all other attributes and accomplishments a strong Investigative background that includes participating in, supervising, and managing major case assignments.

Senior Systems Analyst, Behavioral Science Investigative Support Unit, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, FBI Acadcmy, Quantico, VA.

Manager VICAP, Behavioral Science Investigative Support Unit, National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime, FBI Academy Quantico, VA.

He has been a consultant in forensic pathology to the Behavioral Science Investigative Support Unit at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va.

Barrett general investigative files, Records of Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh, Records of the Independent Counsels, National Archives II, Box 39.

That would save Doakes a great deal of boring investigative work when Reiker finally disappeared some day.

The committees wanted drafts of his investigative report on the White House - Treasury contacts, internal memos, exchanges of correspondence.

Jack Summer the interplanetary muckraker and ace investigative reporter?

The muckrakers, like Steffens and Tarbell, were investigative reporters.

FBI agents did create records of interviews and other investigative efforts, but there were no reports officers to condense the information into meaningful intelligence that could be retrieved and disseminated.

From there he went to Dallas, then Denver, where he won an Emmy covering a skyjacking, and then to the New York local CBS affiliate, where he won another Emmy for investigative reporting.