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re-investigation

re-investigation is the alternative spelling of reinvestigation.

Meaning of reinvestigation

Noun

reinvestigation (countable and uncountable, plural reinvestigations)

  1. An act or process of reinvestigating: a repeat of an earlier investigation
    • In 2002, in spectacular fashion, his office recommended dismissing the convictions of five men in the attack on a jogger in Central Park, after its reinvestigation showed that another man had acted alone.2008 June 23, Benjamin Weiser, “Doubting Case, a Prosecutor Helped the Defense”, in New York Times

Forms of re-investigation

pluralre-investigations

Questions about re-investigation

What is re-investigation the alternative spelling of?
Re-investigation is the alternative spelling of reinvestigation.

Words near re-investigation in the dictionary

  1. re-interventions
  2. re-introduce
  3. re-introduced
  4. re-introduces
  5. re-introducing
  6. re-investigation
  7. re-investigations
  8. re-issue
  9. re-issued
  10. re-issues
  11. re-issuing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: re-investigation (page history and authors); reinvestigation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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