reinvestigation

See also: re-investigation

English

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Etymology

From re- +‎ investigation.

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Noun

reinvestigation (countable and uncountable, plural reinvestigations)

  1. An act or process of reinvestigating: a repeat of an earlier investigation
    • 2008 June 23, Benjamin Weiser, “Doubting Case, a Prosecutor Helped the Defense”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      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.
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