enquiry
[en-kwahyuh r-ee, en-kwuh-ree]
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queryinquiryinquisitionstudyprobeanalysisquestioninginterrogationinvestigationexaminationexplorationresearchinspectionExamples from the Web for enquiry
Contemporary Examples
She is incapable of responding to kindness and enquiry, even very gentle flirting on the part of a co-worker.
Had it been police officers [who harassed Leyland] there would be an IPCC enquiry.
Outed Madeleine McCann Troll Kills Herself. But Millions Live On Online.Barbie Latza Nadeau
October 6, 2014
And this time there will be no internal committees of enquiry or scurrilous U.N. Goldstone commissions.
Police are now following hundreds of lines of enquiry involving many hundreds of potential victims.
Historical Examples
On enquiry, we learned these fellows had threatened to rob her shop.
Ned MyersJames Fenimore Cooper
We shall then find what are the proper subjects of science and enquiry.
What that principle is may well be worth the pains of enquiry.
Of the eligible men there Mr. Cecil Underwood seemed, on enquiry, to be the most eligible.
The Incomplete AmoristE. Nesbit
There was to be scholarship and company and curiosity and enquiry.
Changing WindsSt. John G. Ervine
Word Origin and History for enquiry
n.
alternative spelling of inquiry. Related: Enquiries.
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