Usually means: Systematic inquiry to discover facts.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word investigation:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. investigation: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. investigation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. investigation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. investigation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. investigation: Vocabulary.com
  6. Investigation, investigation: Wordnik
  7. investigation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. investigation: Wiktionary
  9. investigation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. investigation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. investigation: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Investigation, investigation: Dictionary.com
  13. investigation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. investigation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Investigation (TV channel), Investigation (disambiguation), Investigation (film), Investigation, The Investigation (play), The Investigation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Investigation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. investigation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. investigation: Rhymezone
  19. investigation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. investigation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. investigation: Free Dictionary
  22. investigation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. investigation: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTIGATION: Accounting Glossary
  2. investigation: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. investigation: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. investigation: Medical dictionary

(Note: See investigate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research, especially patient or thorough inquiry or examination

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