POLICE INVESTIGATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does police investigation mean? 

• POLICE INVESTIGATION (noun)
  The noun POLICE INVESTIGATION has 1 sense:

1. the investigation of criminal activities

  Familiarity information: POLICE INVESTIGATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLICE INVESTIGATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The investigation of criminal activities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

police investigation; police work

Hypernyms ("police investigation" is a kind of...):

investigating; investigation (the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "police investigation"):

detecting; detection; detective work; sleuthing (a police investigation to determine the perpetrator)

forensics (scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes)

roundup (the systematic gathering up of suspects by the police)

surveillance (close observation of a person or group (usually by the police))

 Context examples 

The public has already learned those particulars of the crime which came out in the police investigation, but a good deal was suppressed upon that occasion, since the case for the prosecution was so overwhelmingly strong that it was not necessary to bring forward all the facts.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)