Investigate

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

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To carry out a formal or systematic inquiry to discover and examine the facts of an event, incident, etc. in order to establish the truth.

NIST Cybersecurity Framework

Senses

1 more sense beyond the canonical

National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS) Cybersecurity Lexicon

a NICE Workforce Framework category consisting of specialty areas responsible for the investigation of cyber events and/or crimes of IT systems, networks, and digital evidence

Classifications

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Variants

3 surface forms

plural: Investigates
possessive: Investigate's
pluralpossessive: Investigates'

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