Synonyms for investigator


Grammar : Noun
Spell : in-ves-ti-geyt
Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈvɛs tɪˌgeɪt

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Définition of investigator

Origin :
  • 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).
  • noun person who checks thoroughly
Example sentences :
  • The investigator is not necessarily a historian, any more than a lumberman is an architect.
  • Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
  • She frowned under it without animosity, in the manner of an investigator.
  • Extract from : « Under Western Eyes » by Joseph Conrad
  • This upheaval in the South, according to an investigator, will be helpful to all.
  • Extract from : « Negro Migration during the War » by Emmett J. Scott
  • Just what kind of an investigator do you take me for, Tapkins?
  • Extract from : « Janet of the Dunes » by Harriet T. Comstock
  • He becomes a chairman, an investigator, a committee man, and a debater.
  • Extract from : « The Arena » by Various
  • On Cardano as an investigator and discoverer, see Libri, Hist.
  • Extract from : « The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy » by Jacob Burckhardt
  • Fairchild was called, to suffer no more from the queries of the investigator than Harry.
  • Extract from : « The Cross-Cut » by Courtney Ryley Cooper
  • But it was not the appearance of this remarkable apparition which startled the investigator.
  • Extract from : « The Man Who Knew » by Edgar Wallace
  • Its vagaries must be experienced and studied by any investigator of the atrocities of war.
  • Extract from : « The Better Germany in War Time » by Harold Picton
  • Tweddle, I'll drop the investigator, and speak as man to man.
  • Extract from : « The Tinted Venus » by F. Anstey
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