ENQUIRY


Meaning of ENQUIRY in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

deal with an enquiry

Our staff will be able to deal with any enquiries.

directory enquiries

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

additional

There may be other issues of importance to individual prospective investors, who must make additional enquiries as they see necessary.

However, the Protocol system does not encourage additional enquiries on detailed and pernickety points.

An opportunity will be made available for prospective investors to make additional enquiries .

Preliminary enquiries and additional enquiries Under the traditional system of conveyancing, the preliminary enquiry form remains in use.

further

The Lord Advocate ordered further enquiries to be made.

In certain cases the value is left out, perhaps pending further enquiry .

The book will help you tell one bird from another and that will be the spur to further enquiry .

Jobbernole listened painfully to her remarks, but did not bother to make further enquiries .

Two major problems dominate further enquiry into today's fertility patterns and trends in Britain and the whole industrial world.

They were back in Nottingham again on 29 July, making further enquiries .

Nine other people have been bailed, pending further enquiries .

This mailing resulted in an immediate response by over 20 companies, and further enquiries on an on-going basis.

general

The Reject Shop, for general information and enquiries , full branch addresses and transport details; tel: 071-736 7474.

historical

In every other sphere of historical enquiry , new material is acknowledged.

Peter Roberts writing in 1981 put in a plea for more textbooks that deal with the processes of historical enquiry .

official

The discourses of these enquiries overlapped, from popular newspapers through statistical surveys and scholarly works to official boards of enquiry.

preliminary

The purchaser's solicitors will raise preliminary enquiries with the vendor's solicitors to obtain general information about the property.

The questions on both forms are broadly identical to those contained on the more traditional preliminary enquiry forms.

The preliminary enquiry of a seller as to what other persons occupy the property is one precaution.

This problem can usually be resolved by the standard preliminary enquiries .

Preliminary enquiries and additional enquiries Under the traditional system of conveyancing, the preliminary enquiry form remains in use.

Searches prior to completion and replies Obtain from the seller the preliminary search and enquiries of the local authority.

It is therefore important to keep stocks of the old stationery for dealing with preliminary enquiries in your office.

public

The plan is due to go before a public enquiry next summer.

Public opinion on proposals for change is made known at public enquiries .

The third function, which belongs principally to ministerial and public enquiries , is advice.

An example would be an ad hoe public enquiry into a serious railway accident.

It can be controversial and I envisage that fixing zone boundaries would require a procedure of public enquiry etc.

Our image information is an under-used resource of enormous potential value for scientific research, public enquiries , and commercial development.

The Secretary of State is now likely to call in the application and subject it to a public enquiry .

We will introduce a fairer system for all school reorganisations, with independent public enquiries .

scientific

Its accounts, however accurate at this level, remain stuck at this preliminary stage of scientific enquiry .

The actual work was related to scientific observation, enquiry , recording as well as learning how to behave in a group.

Gaia as a catalyst for scientific enquiry .

Yet one of the conditions for any scientific enquiry is to realise that something is in need of explanation.

■ NOUN

directory

Only when she checked with directory enquiries did she learn that the receiver was off the hook.

Pascoe had obtained the number from directory enquiries and listened to her answerphone message a dozen times or more.

She hunted down the telephone number through directory enquiries and then rang.

First he rang directory enquiries and then the operator.

Perhaps she should get his number from directory enquiries .

form

The publisher will require the client to complete an enquiry form soas to be satisfied as to the factual accuracy of the advertisement.

Preliminary enquiries and additional enquiries Under the traditional system of conveyancing, the preliminary enquiry form remains in use.

number

Reader enquiry number 134 Downlighters Designed Architectural Lighting has launched a new range of 14 downlighters.

For further information on a particular company's products, please circle the appropriate enquiry number on the reader service card.

reader

Together with other Library staff, responsible for reader assistance and helping with reader enquiries . 11.

service

A complete range of enquiry services is available to personal callers - the variety is so large as to make description impossible.

They are again important as supplements to the enquiry service .

telephone

Through telephone enquiries he discovered that there were plenty of Carrows and Tremaynes in the county and not a few who were ex-directory.

It has been produced because of the telephone enquiries we are now receiving following publicity in the national press.

Several reference site visits and telephone enquiries to current users were then made.

Station and telephone enquiry bureaux can answer queries on individual services.

The library office is open for telephone enquiries and our information officers are more than happy to receive your calls.

■ VERB

answer

Our staff will be pleased to answer your enquiries and take your booking.

He assumed that a porter or janitor was usually stationed there to be on call or to answer enquiries .

Staff require access to most information resources in order to answer enquiries .

These leaflets should include horticultural advice, so that they can be used to answer enquiries .

The reception office should be so organised that all sources of information necessary to answer enquiries are immediately to hand.

Many of the cases are responsa, in which the jurist is answering a legal enquiry .

conduct

It may be that a judge is well qualified to conduct enquiries to establish what took place on particular occasions.

The magistrate may question the suspect and other witnesses and conduct his own enquiries .

The company that sent in the bailiffs, Bristow and Sutor, say they're conducting an enquiry .

deal

Bull has set up a freephone number to deal with customer enquiries .

I've been dealing with enquiries for our products all day.

Anyone else asking for information should immediately be referred to the manager who will take the responsibility of dealing with the enquiry .

Over the last year it has dealt with enquiries from about 450 former service personnel.

My department will deal with all enquiries resulting from the canvas, including those concerning banding.

They provide information for the receptionist when dealing with enquiries for the guests as to what standard equipment is in the room.

More than 85% of those questioned say they think stores should have freephone numbers to deal with shoppers' enquiries .

They will either deal with your enquiry or direct you to the appropriate department in the University.

follow

The massive effort of the 1970s Royal Commission is to be followed by yet another enquiry .

The teacher must also be prepared to follow up lines of enquiry started by the pupils.

Benefits calculation packages are especially popular with inexperienced advice workers to ensure that they have followed every avenue of enquiry .

handle

I gave out my home address to save Radio Leicester having to handle the enquiries .

In 1989-90 the service handled 6,959,276 enquiries , an increase of 38 percent. over 1982 - 83.

help

He's been taken back to Banbury where's he helping police with their enquiries .

A police spokesman added that the businessman on whose premises the bikes were found was helping with their enquiries .

It was organised by the Chamber of Shipping, whose personnel were on hand to help with enquiries .

A twenty year old man is now helping police with their enquiries .

Drawings, identikit pictures, character descriptions will all help our enquiries .

It will help us with our enquiries if you can give us the envelope or the outer wrapping.

make

Jobbernole listened painfully to her remarks, but did not bother to make further enquiries .

If in doubt take a needle with you and make enquiries before you buy. 8.

Nellie had no idea where her friend Aggie could obtain a neutered tomcat but she had made enquiries .

Other applicants should also make enquiries early in the year in which they propose to commence a postgraduate course. 1.

Quite often, the police ask for a remand to give them time to make further enquiries , assemble their evidence and so on.

By all means make enquiries in order to aid observation.

All the same, progress was being made with the enquiries into Pierre's disappearance.

If in doubt, the developer should check the levels of noise at different times and make enquiries with local people.

pursue

It rests on a readiness on the part of practitioners to pursue their own enquiries in the very process of classroom teaching.

If Clarke had intended to pursue his enquiries further, he obviously thought better of it under that formidable gaze.

All too often the outside researcher pursues lines of enquiry which the prevailing culture manages to encompass and nullify.

Margaret was encouraged to continue pursuing her enquiries with the solicitor.

receive

Yet each year the Equal Opportunities Commission receives between 700-800 enquiries relating to pregnancy dismissals.

The service currently receives over 790O enquiries a year from members on a wide range of topics.

Within five minutes, they had received over one hundred enquiries .

start

They recognised you, and described me well enough for him to start making enquiries .

undertake

Since that time, no other organization has, to our knowledge, undertaken so comprehensive an enquiry .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

eliminate sb from your enquiries

house-to-house inquiries/search/collection etc

Another was a newcomer to our church and to our city, doing an Edinburgh house-to-house collection for the first time.

It was Major Volpi who had been given responsibility for putting up road-blocks and carrying out house-to-house searches.

Officers would also be making house-to-house inquiries, said a Hertfordshire Police spokesman.

Peacekeeping troops set up road blocks and conducted house-to-house searches.

Road blocks were set up and a helicopter brought in from Manchester as police began house-to-house inquiries.

Some 200 militants were arrested in house-to-house searches beginning on April 13.

The street collection raised £255.41 and the house-to-house collection realised £2,928.

We will be making street and house-to-house collections during Battle of Britain Week.

sb is helping the police with their enquiries

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Detective Chief Inspector Kenneth Harris, in a radio interview, announced that another line of enquiry was being pursued.

Her friendly enquiry as to the whereabouts of the Red House was met by a hostile stare from the woman behind the counter.

If in doubt take a needle with you and make enquiries before you buy. 8.

It specifically made visible the gap in post-elementary provision, one to which the subsequent enquiries addressed themselves.

Members of the society were sending 100,000 enquiries a year to its central office about credit worthiness.

The biggest single problem area was in the provision of an on-line enquiry facility for adhoc information requirements.

The local authority will make enquiries to see if the funeral can be paid for by a relative.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.