investigations
- 1Plural of investigation.
Several investigations were launched after the financial scandal came to light.
The agency runs dozens of fraud investigations every year.
Note
A regular plural, but it belongs to only one side of the noun. Investigation can name the activity in general, meaning patient, thorough inquiry, and that use has no plural: a matter is under investigation, never under investigations. Pluralize it and you are counting separate inquiries, each with its own start and finish, which is why it sits naturally with verbs like launch and run.
investigations is a form of investigation
investigation, noun: The process of inquiring into or following up on something, especially through patient, thorough examination. Full entry
- Forms
- investigationinvestigations plural
- Spelling
- investigation → investigations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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