"investigate" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

investigate verbo

investigate + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 119
investigate allegations • investigate crimes • investigate complaints • investigate reports • investigate charges • investigate claims • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 29
(3) report, rumor, account
Kolokacji: 3
(6) abuse, atrocity
Kolokacji: 2
(8) effect, thing
Kolokacji: 2
(9) way, condition, link
Kolokacji: 3
(14) affair, involvement, concern
Kolokacji: 3
(16) officer, magistrate, official
Kolokacji: 3
(17) relationship, tie
Kolokacji: 2
(19) problem, situation, suspicion
Kolokacji: 3
(20) life, transaction, past
Kolokacji: 3
(22) method, solution
Kolokacji: 2
(23) finance, circumstance
Kolokacji: 2
(24) handling, mismanagement
Kolokacji: 2
(25) terrorism, police
Kolokacji: 2
(26) violence, robbery
Kolokacji: 2
(27) application, technology
Kolokacji: 2
(28) dealings, payment, trading
Kolokacji: 3
(29) Enron, Microsoft
Kolokacji: 2
  • The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating Microsoft.
  • Microsuits Dan Morales, the attorney general of Texas, was the first state attorney general to begin investigating Microsoft 18 months ago.
  • He bluntly suggested that it would be a waste of the taxpayers' money to have spent three years investigating Microsoft only to wind up again with a tie vote and no decision.
  • But a person close to the 12 states investigating Microsoft said that blocking the product was not the favored strategy of most of them.
  • First Acknowledgement The statement was the Justice Department's first public acknowledgement that it was investigating Microsoft.
  • But Mr. Baer was not working for the agency when it last investigated Microsoft, in the early 1990's.
  • Even after the settlement, she said, the Government would be free to investigate Microsoft if evidence of other instances of anti-competitive behavior came to light.
  • Stocks were weighed down by a variety of factors, including rising interest rates, word that European antitrust authorities are investigating Microsoft and more attacks involving cyberspace security.
  • In addition to the Justice Department suit, several state attorneys general are investigating Microsoft, as are antitrust officials in Europe.
  • So after seven years and millions of dollars spent investigating Microsoft, the government seems to have found virtually no anti-competitive acts to account for the company's success.
verbo + investigate
Kolokacji: 29
begin investigating • start investigating • appointed to investigate • continue to investigate • decide to investigate • ...
investigate + preposición
Kolokacji: 28
investigate by • investigated for • investigate in • investigate with • investigate against • ...
investigate + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 37
investigate further • thoroughly investigated • fully investigated • properly investigated • actively investigate • ...

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