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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
investigator
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a crash investigator (=someone who tries to find the cause of a crash)
▪ Crash investigators spent several days examining the scene.
an accident investigator
▪ Accident investigators have been there all morning.
private investigator
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chief
▪ David Campos, the chief investigator, is troubled by the long delay.
▪ Gerstein did not know what was in the records, but his chief investigator, Martin Dardis, would.
▪ Now the vanished figure is the chief investigator in that slaying, Pablo Chapa Bezanilla.
congressional
▪ But congressional investigators said bank claims of confidentiality kept them from establishing precisely how much profit banks are reaping from the surcharges.
federal
▪ It has survived several challenges by federal investigators.
▪ State and federal investigators believe the substance may have been illegally dumped or leaked into the water.
▪ Police and federal investigators do not believe the two bombing events are connected.
▪ Findings by the examiners could assist federal investigators seeking a cause for the crash.
▪ They argued that Manning did not remember McVeigh leaving his shop until after almost a dozen interviews with federal investigators.
▪ Jones wanted Davis on the stand because Davis had previously told federal investigators that the man in the room was not McVeigh.
independent
▪ An independent investigator outside the surgical team was not used.
principal
▪ This convention results in the last authors - who usually include the principal investigator - being dropped from the citation.
▪ William Evans designed pharmacological studies and was a principal investigator on the primary leukaemia protocol.
▪ Ching-Hon Pui was a principal investigator of the leukaemia treatment protocols and interpreted the data.
▪ The principal investigators will be responsible for interviewing key informants about the way the system has been modified in recent years.
▪ We invited the principal investigators from the remaining 7 trials to participate in this analysis and they agreed.
▪ A mathematical theory of statistical predictors and how to assess their accuracy has been developed by the principal investigator and others.
▪ The research is being undertaken on an inter-disciplinary basis and the two principal investigators are an economist and a social policy specialist.
private
▪ The Twiggs hired a private investigator to find their real daughter.
▪ Her family hired private investigators to find their daughter.
▪ Others use private investigators when employees have been threatened or workers have complained about on-the-job harassment.
social
▪ A social investigator and lecturer, he established a cross-class liaison with Hannah Cullwick, a Shropshire servant, in the 1850s.
▪ Policy makers and social investigators assumed that all married women would be dependent on their husbands for financial support.
▪ Throughout the period policy makers and social investigators were anxious that husbands should fulfil their obligation to maintain dependent wives and children.
▪ To watch and to listen are two important activities for the social investigator studying social behaviour as it really happens.
▪ It was they who were scrutinized by Orwell, the Pilgrim Trust and other social investigators.
■ NOUN
accident
▪ Air accident investigators are now trying to establish what caused the crash.
▪ Applications to fly executive jets were rejected and an attempt to become a government air accident investigator failed.
▪ Last night, accident investigators were still trying to find out what exactly caused the disaster.
▪ By the time the accident investigator arrives on the scene, however, the ice has melted and the evidence has vanished.
crash
▪ Air crash investigators told the inquest that the battery recovered from the wreckage was flat.
▪ The crash investigators won't report until next year on why their low level training flight went so wrong.
▪ A crash investigator told the court he'd calculated the speed using a reconstruction and tyre marks left on the road.
▪ After crash investigators had finished the painstaking work of examining the scene for clues, the plane was partly dismantled.
homicide
▪ Among the haunting similarities: criticism directed at homicide investigators for mishandling evidence.
▪ A homicide investigator confirmed this in an interview Sept. 9.
insurance
▪ So it wouldn't have just been insurance investigators ferreting about - it would have been the world's press as well.
■ VERB
accord
▪ He was charming, expansive and, according to investigators, a danger to the well-being of associates who fell from favor.
hire
▪ The Twiggs hired a private investigator to find their real daughter.
▪ Her family hired private investigators to find their daughter.
lead
▪ These differences have led some investigators to consider cancer of the cardia as a separate entity.
say
▪ A police spokesman said Board of Trade investigators would be notified.
▪ But a department official said investigators have not found enough evidence to justify a full-fledged investigation.
▪ She had been called previously, she said, by investigators for the House and Senate committees probing Democratic fund-raising.
▪ Fosco said WildCare investigators believed pseudo-rabies and distemper might both be involved.
▪ Last week, the Justice Department said investigators would check for evidence of collusion and price-fixing in the industry.
▪ Brophy said investigators are looking into whether the man was using the fuel to keep warm.
▪ Cossio said his investigators also made some breakthroughs in kidnappings.
▪ Berkeley police Detective Derek Bertauche said investigators have not determined if the victims were targeted.
tell
▪ The subject of the test had to tell the investigator which way the spots were drifting.
▪ The couple were arrested Wednesday after two of the boys finally told investigators of the alleged abuse, police said.
▪ Michael Osborne told investigators that drugs were so prevalent at Cyberzone that undercover agents needed help from fellow deputies working off-duty.
▪ Three of the seven players told investigators they put Tiger in a bag and beat her with baseball bats.
▪ Lake told investigators he thought the certificate meant the sale had been completed.
▪ Flynn told investigators that he did not know how Fisher had arranged to pay for the trip, the source said.
▪ She told investigators that May raped her.
▪ Jones wanted Davis on the stand because Davis had previously told federal investigators that the man in the room was not McVeigh.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A team of special investigators have gone to the scene of the explosion.
▪ The investigator has concluded that they were making a false insurance claim.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After confessing, Flores agreed to cooperate with investigators.
▪ Federal investigators are trying to prove that Dime employees conspired to falsify loan documents, court records show.
▪ His revelations amazed the investigators who had believed they were dealing with a limited case.
▪ In December 1996 investigators raided his home outside Munich.
▪ Making arrangements for the engineering investigators to cope with the jet age posed much less difficulty.
▪ Only 1 of 6 observed episodes of asthma was believed by the clinical investigators to be related to therapy.
▪ The investigator dispatched to probe the incident blamed the Tonghaks for the trouble.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
investigator

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
investigator

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).

Wiktionary
investigator

n. One who investigates.

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WordNet
investigator

  1. n. a scientist who devotes himself to doing research [syn: research worker, researcher]

  2. someone who investigates

  3. a police officer who investigates crimes [syn: detective, tec, police detective]

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Wikipedia
Investigator

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, state or federal employee, or a civilian called a private detective
  • Inspector, a police rank in many countries
  • Investigator Strait, a body of water lying between Yorke Peninsula on the Australian mainland and Kangaroo Island, both in South Australia
  • New investigator, a designation for less experienced researchers
  • a researcher in a research project – see Principal investigator
  • Private investigator, a person who does not work for the police or government, but who undertakes investigations as a subcontractor
  • UN Special Investigator, a United Nations appointee, charged with investigations or auditing in a specific matter
  • Ghosthunter/Ghost Hunter or other Paranormal Investigators
  • Psychic detective, a person who investigates crimes by using purported psychic abilities.
Investigator (magazine)

The Investigator is a quarterly magazine published by the Geelong Historical Society in March, June, September and December each year. The journal is named for the ship of explorer Matthew Flinders, who was the first to set inside Port Phillip Bay and see the site of the future town of Geelong.

There is a cumulative index for 1965 - 1984 and an updated digitised index on CD from 1965 up to 2009. Issued from Vol. 1 no. 1: (Sep 1965) to date. The Investigator includes articles on general history of Geelong and District, but also specialist research and history from a number of expert contributors including Norm Houghton an authority on timber tramways and sawmills of the district, and former engineer, the late Peter F. B. Alsop.

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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.