What does Investigator mean?

Definitions for Investigator
ɪnˈvɛs tɪˌgeɪ tərin·ves·ti·ga·tor

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. research worker, researcher, investigatornoun

    a scientist who devotes himself to doing research

  2. investigatornoun

    someone who investigates

  3. detective, investigator, tec, police detectivenoun

    a police officer who investigates crimes

Wiktionary

  1. investigatornoun

    One who investigates.

  2. Etymology: Attested in the mid‐16th Century ; from investigator, from investigare.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Investigatornoun

    one who searches diligently into a subject

  2. Etymology: [L.: cf. F. investigateur.]

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  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Investigator' in Nouns Frequency: #2881

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Investigator in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Investigator in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Investigator in a Sentence

  1. Michael McCaul:

    As the entire House Foreign Affairs Committee saw in this week’s hearing, Secretary Blinken struggled to defend the haphazard decisions that he and President Biden made that led to the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. This week I announced that Committee Republicans hired an investigator to join our team as we look into this systemic failure, and I hope that we are able to work together to come to an accurate conclusion and determine how this absolute tragedy could have been avoided.

  2. Abdul Aziz:

    It is almost certain that the flaperon is from a Boeing 777 aircraft. Our chief investigator here told me this.

  3. Michael Garcia:

    It now appears that, at least for the foreseeable future, the Eckert Decision will stand as the final word on the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup bidding process, no independent governance committee, investigator, or arbitration panel can change the culture of an organization.

  4. Kendall Coffey:

    The lead investigator, the person on the scene, the person that normally law enforcement would say is in the best position to there is prospect in arrest, he apparently was effectively overruled by people sitting back at the office. It does happen, but it certainly raises a lot of questions.”

  5. Dean Angelo:

    We had inflammatory and false rhetoric coming from (Michael Oppenheimer) and statements that weren’t true, you also have a lead investigator in police-involved deaths talking about how shocking and disturbing this is.

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