Слово "inquiry". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

Mr Vladimir bore the look of heavy inquiry with perfect serenity.

‘I thought I’d better make some inquiries about my prospective brother-in-law, as no one else seemed interested,’ said Brideshead.

You'd better make inquiries."

Too many farmers had assumed, without due enquiry, that on such a farm a spirit of licence and indiscipline would prevail.

I was already deeply interested in his inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and strange features which were associated with the two crimes which I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own.

“Thank you. We have certainly been favoured with extraordinary luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up. With your permission, Mr. Holder, I shall now continue my investigations outside.”

and it launched lines of inquiry that shaped both the field of linguistics

But if we place these technologies before student inquiry,

Keep him wondering what pride or lack of faith has delivered him into your hands when a simple enquiry into what he has been eating or drinking for the last twenty-four hours would show him whence your ammunition comes and thus enable him by a very little abstinence to imperil your lines of communication.