exhaustive investigation

collocation in English

meaningsofexhaustiveandinvestigation

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exhaustive
adjective
uk
/ɪɡˈzɔː.stɪv/us
/ɪɡˈzɑː.stɪv/
complete and ...
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investigation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ɪnˌves.tɪˈɡeɪ.ʃən/us
/ɪnˌves.təˈɡeɪ.ʃən/
the act or process of examining a crime, problem, statement, etc. carefully, especially to discover ...
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The implementation can also be instructed to performexhaustiveinvestigationof queries.
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My observations cannot be considered as complete, for it was not possible to make a thoroughlyexhaustiveinvestigation.
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Anexhaustiveinvestigationof risks was not intended.
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The improvements have resulted from anexhaustiveinvestigationinto identifying and understanding those design and operating elements crucial to achieving satisfactory cylindrical shock formation and convergence.
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Those are questions which cannot be dealt with piecemeal, but require a thorough andexhaustiveinvestigationof the whole situation.
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What is required is a thorough andexhaustiveinvestigationwhich takes new ideas into account.
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We have had a veryexhaustiveinvestigationof the problem and a very careful statement of policy.
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The factors involved in the design of such structures have been for some time past the subject ofexhaustiveinvestigation, both experimental and theoretical.
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The committee carried out anexhaustiveinvestigationand there was one main recommendation.
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What this amendment would do is make us have a moreexhaustiveinvestigationby a body that, frankly, is unsuited to that task.
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The circumstances of this tragic accident have been the subject of a mostexhaustiveinvestigation.
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They have a duty to conduct anexhaustiveinvestigationand debate before coming to any conclusion.
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There has been anexhaustiveinvestigationinto the matter.
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Exhaustiveinvestigationhas shown that the arbitrary figure of 10,000 tons as the limit of a capital ship would fail to command general acceptance.
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You might suspect some shareholders of being enemies, and in order to make anexhaustiveinvestigationyou might have to call them all in.
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Since the appointed guardians came on, they have discovered, afterexhaustiveinvestigation, 34 persons more who admit that their statements were not entirely accurate.
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The question of the scale and rate of progress of our armaments has recently been the subject ofexhaustiveinvestigation.
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What moreexhaustiveinvestigationcan we have?
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Every possible precaution is taken to guard against such accidents, which are extremely rare and are immediately followed by anexhaustiveinvestigationto establish the cause.
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An immediate andexhaustiveinvestigationfailed to reveal evidence of any sort to justify the report or that prices above the maximum were being paid by any buyers.
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