investigator
/ɪnˈvɛstɪɡeɪtə
/noun
A person who carries out a formal inquiry or investigation: accident investigators are at the crash site investigators found no signs of forced entry...
- The Revenue investigators act more like private detectives than civil servants.
- The Italian and Spanish operations gave British investigators many new leads.
- Private investigators have traditionally been perceived as shadowy and devious.
Synonyms
inspector, examiner, enquirer, explorer, analyser;
researcher, scrutineer, scrutinizer, factfinder, prober, surveyor, searcher, checker, monitor;
detective, questioner, inquisitor
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