nouninquiries

• 1An act of asking for information.

  ‘a reporter from New York makes inquiries’

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  • ‘we get a lot of inquiries from folks wanting to know where to find the big trees’
  • ‘new areas of inquiry emerged in the course of the conference’
  • ‘all lines of inquiry are open’

  Synonyms

  question, query

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  1. 1.1An official investigation.
     ‘he was one of the State's star witnesses in the murder inquiry’
     More example sentences

     • ‘eventually the independent inquiry was published, which found that there was no case to answer’
     Synonyms

     investigation, examination, exploration, probe, search, scrutiny, scrutinization, study, inspection

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