# investigator

Pronunciation: US say "in-VES-ti-gay-tur" /ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ.tɚ/; UK say "in-VES-ti-gay-tuh" /ɪnˈvɛs.tɪˌɡeɪ.tɘ/

## Noun

1. A person who examines facts and gathers evidence in order to learn the truth about something.
   - Simple: A person who carefully looks into something to find out what really happened.
   - _The investigator pieced together the timeline from bank records and phone logs._
   - _Insurance investigators concluded that the damage had been staged._

## Origin

First attested in the mid-16th century, from Latin investigator, from investigare, equivalent to investigate plus -or.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/investigator (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).