What is an enquiry?

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Means asking a question or wanting to know about something. Example, You put an ad up, and I enquired about it. ( I asked you for some more information.) dictionary.com works best

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Note that enquiry is the British spelling. . . in the US it's normally spelled inquiry.

2. An official investigation.

3. An official process to discover the facts about something bad that has
happened.

4. Search for truth, information, or knowledge.

5. Examination of facts or principles through investigation.

6. A close examination of a matter in a search for accurate information
or truth.

7. A systematic investigation of a matter of public interest.

8. A legal investigation into a crime or wrongdoing - "the police have
opened an enquiry".

Note: Enquiry, inquest, inquisition, investigation, probe, research - these
nouns denote a quest for knowledge, data, or truth.

Expressions using "enquiry": board of enquiry - commission of enquiry -
committee of enquiry - exhaustive enquiry - severe enquiry.

Words beginning with "enquiry": enquiry-answering, enquiry-based,
enquiry-discovery.

Word ending with "enquiry": pre-enquiry.

Specialty definition using "enquiry": enquiry character

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