findingnoun
uk/ˈfaɪn.dɪŋ/us/ˈfaɪn.dɪŋ/finding noun (DISCOVERY)
[ C ] a piece of information that is discovered during an official examination of a problem, situation, or object:
The report's finding on the decrease in violent crime supports the police chief's claims.
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- These new findings turn the accepted theories on their head.
- The findings of the survey puzzle me - they're not at all what I would have expected.
- The methodology and findings of the research team have been criticized.
- These findings are inconsistent with those of previous studies.
- The survey's finding is likely to increase the pressure on the local authorities.
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Finding and discovering
- a fishing expedition idiom
- alight
- ascertain
- break fresh/new ground idiom
- breakthrough
- catch sb red-handed idiom
- flush
- get wind of sth idiom
- happen
- happen on/upon sth/sb
- have a (good) nose for sth idiom
- have got something there idiom
- root sth/sb out
- run sb/sth to ground idiom
- scent
- search
- search sth/sb out
- smell
- sniff sth out
- stumble
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finding noun (JUDGMENT)
[ C usually singular ] a judgment made at the end of an official legal inquiry (= a process to discover the answer to something)
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Court cases, orders & decisions
- actionable
- administer
- admissible
- affidavit
- affiliation order
- bail
- bale
- defend
- injunction
- judgment
- judicature
- judicial
- jurisdiction
- plea
- remedy
- Rex
- ruling
- separation
- sequester
- show trial
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