# researcher

Pronunciation: US say "REE-sur-chur" /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/; UK say "ri-SUR-chuh" /ɹɪˈsɜː.t͡ʃə/

## Noun

1. A person who carries out careful study or investigation to discover and establish facts.
   - Simple: A person who studies a subject carefully to find out new facts.
   - _The researcher published her findings after three years of fieldwork._
   - _Government researchers tracked the spread of the disease across several regions._

## Origin

Formed from "research" combined with the suffix "-er."

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