Investigator

Definition

investigate / Çn'vestÇgeÇt / v ၁။ စံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးသည္။ The police were baffled, and the FBI was called in to investigate. ❍ investigate allegations / complaints ❍ Scientists are investigating the cause of the crash / are investigating how the crash occurred. ၂။ စံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးသည္။ Applicants for government posts are always thoroughly investigated before being appointed. ၃။ ေလ့လာသည္။ သုေတသနလုပ္သည္။ investigate the market for a product / for ways of increasing profits ❍ We might be able to help you; I'll investigate the possibilities. ၄။ ( infml ) (သြား) ၾကည့္သည္။ ‘What was that noise outside?’ ‘I'll just go and investigate. ’ ❑ investigation / ÇnvestÇ'geÇʃn / n [U, C] ~ ( into sth ) စံုစမ္းစစ္ေဆးျခင္း။ စူးစမ္းေလ့လာမႈ။ The matter is under investigation / requires further investigation. ❍ Scientists are conducting an investigation into the accident. ❍ The police have completed their investigation(s). ❑ investigative / Çn'vestÇgǝtÇv; US -geÇtÇv / (also investigatory / Çn'vestÇgǝtǝri; US -gǝtↄ:ri /) adj စူးစမ္း ေလ့လာေသာ။ investigative journalism (ie in which journalists try to discover important facts of public interest that have been concealed) ❍ have wide investigatory powers. ❑ investigator / Çn'vestÇgeÇtǝ(r) / n စံုစမ္း စစ္ေဆးသူ။ a private investigator (ie a DETECTIVE) အလြတ္စံုေထာက္။ ❍ insurance investigators ❍ Accident investigators have discovered the cause of the crash.

Examples

1. We sent a reporter to investigate the rumour.
2. All complaints from our customers are investigated quickly and efficiently.
3. A short time later I heard a noise outside and went to investigate.
4. [investigate what/why/whether etc] : The research aims to investigate why schools are not doing better.
5. She was thoroughly investigated by the FBI before being offered the job.