Enquire
verb
To ask someone for information.
I am writing to enquire about your advertisement in The Daily Post.
Often appears as...
- enquire about
- enquire after
verb
To formally investigate something.
The police are enquiring into the incident.
Often appears as...
- enquire into
- enquire of
Usage tips
Formal
verb
To ask someone for information.
I am writing to enquire about your advertisement in The Daily Post.
Often appears as...
- enquire about
- enquire after
verb
To formally investigate something.
The police are enquiring into the incident.
Often appears as...
- enquire into
- enquire of
Usage tips
Formal
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Seeking Information
Use 'enquire' when you want information you don't have, like details or clarification.
Can I enquire about the meeting's agenda?
Pro Tip 2/3Polite Curiosity
'Enquire' suggests a polite or formal way of asking, not abrupt or too direct.
I'd like to enquire about your services.
Pro Tip 3/3Business Context
Often used in business or formal settings to ask for specific information.
We wish to enquire about your pricing.
Pro Tip 1/3Seeking Information
Use 'enquire' when you want information you don't have, like details or clarification.
Can I enquire about the meeting's agenda?
Pro Tip 2/3Polite Curiosity
'Enquire' suggests a polite or formal way of asking, not abrupt or too direct.
I'd like to enquire about your services.
Pro Tip 3/3Business Context
Often used in business or formal settings to ask for specific information.
We wish to enquire about your pricing.
Pro Tip 1/3Seeking Information
Use 'enquire' when you want information you don't have, like details or clarification.
Can I enquire about the meeting's agenda?
Pro Tip 2/3Polite Curiosity
'Enquire' suggests a polite or formal way of asking, not abrupt or too direct.
I'd like to enquire about your services.
Pro Tip 3/3Business Context
Often used in business or formal settings to ask for specific information.
We wish to enquire about your pricing.
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Linda Hill: How to...
No, they know how to have very heated but constructive arguments to create a portfolio of alternatives. Individuals in innovative organizations learn how to inquire, they learn how to actively listen, but guess what? They also learn how to advocate for their point of view. They understand that innovation rarely happens
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How can groups make good...
we recently began inquiring into this by performing experiments in many places around the world to figure out how groups can interact to reach better decisions. We thought crowds would be wiser if they debated in small groups that foster a more thoughtful and reasonable exchange of information. To test this idea,
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Why gender-based...
and it's important for us to start finding ways to measure other things about consumers so that we don't revert back to gender. I am not naïve, and I know there's still going to be appetite and certain ease around using gender, but at least this warrants a conversation. In your business, you have to inquire,
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Gavin Pretor-Pinney:...
Clouds are the most egalitarian of nature's displays, because we all have a good, fantastic view of the sky. And these clouds, these rarer clouds, remind us that the exotic can be found in the everyday. Nothing is more nourishing, more stimulating to an active, inquiring mind than being surprised,
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Alwar Balasubramaniam:...
you know, maybe, you know, whoever is sitting next to you can change your whole life -- it's possible. It is that we need we need to be open and fine-tuned. So that's what made me enter college of arts after three attempts and just continue to inquire
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Creating meaningful...
passed the strictest anti-immigration legislation in the history of our country this legislation SB 1070 required police officers to inquire into the status of individuals they interacted with it jeopardized families who did something
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Lemn Sissay: A child of...
for young people. By the way, years later, my social worker said that I should never have been put in there. I wasn't charged for anything. I hadn't done anything wrong. But because I had no family to inquire about me,
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A child of the state -...
the way the years later my social worker said that I should never have been put in there I wasn't charged for anything I hadn't done anything wrong but because I had no family to inquire about me they
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What foods did your...
and food choices differ. It could be about showing respect and curiosity instead of censure when we see somebody enjoying a really unfamiliar food. Love could be taking the time to inquire,
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Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
that we want to photograph and video him and he's sitting up in a perfect spot now inquiring mind with tingoora having mated with his daughter trendy obviously
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Linda Hill: How to...
No, they know how to have very heated but constructive arguments to create a portfolio of alternatives. Individuals in innovative organizations learn how to inquire, they learn how to actively listen, but guess what? They also learn how to advocate for their point of view. They understand that innovation rarely happens
Video examples
How can groups make good...
we recently began inquiring into this by performing experiments in many places around the world to figure out how groups can interact to reach better decisions. We thought crowds would be wiser if they debated in small groups that foster a more thoughtful and reasonable exchange of information. To test this idea,
Video examples
Why gender-based...
and it's important for us to start finding ways to measure other things about consumers so that we don't revert back to gender. I am not naïve, and I know there's still going to be appetite and certain ease around using gender, but at least this warrants a conversation. In your business, you have to inquire,
Video examples
Gavin Pretor-Pinney:...
Clouds are the most egalitarian of nature's displays, because we all have a good, fantastic view of the sky. And these clouds, these rarer clouds, remind us that the exotic can be found in the everyday. Nothing is more nourishing, more stimulating to an active, inquiring mind than being surprised,
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Alwar Balasubramaniam:...
you know, maybe, you know, whoever is sitting next to you can change your whole life -- it's possible. It is that we need we need to be open and fine-tuned. So that's what made me enter college of arts after three attempts and just continue to inquire
Video examples
Creating meaningful...
passed the strictest anti-immigration legislation in the history of our country this legislation SB 1070 required police officers to inquire into the status of individuals they interacted with it jeopardized families who did something
Video examples
Lemn Sissay: A child of...
for young people. By the way, years later, my social worker said that I should never have been put in there. I wasn't charged for anything. I hadn't done anything wrong. But because I had no family to inquire about me,
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A child of the state -...
the way the years later my social worker said that I should never have been put in there I wasn't charged for anything I hadn't done anything wrong but because I had no family to inquire about me they
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What foods did your...
and food choices differ. It could be about showing respect and curiosity instead of censure when we see somebody enjoying a really unfamiliar food. Love could be taking the time to inquire,
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Safari Live - Day 166 PIPE...
that we want to photograph and video him and he's sitting up in a perfect spot now inquiring mind with tingoora having mated with his daughter trendy obviously
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Quote examples
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Filipino Statesman
Our children are our most cherished possession. In their early years, we must make sure they get a healthy start in life. They must receive the right food for a healthy body, the right education for a bright and inquiring mind - and the equal opportunity for a meaningful job.
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Thabo Mbeki
South African Statesman
I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing.
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Stanley Fish
American Writer
Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.
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Thomas Jefferson
American President
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
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Frances Wright
Scottish Writer
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
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Lord Byron
British Poet
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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David Guterson
American Author
Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.
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Ian Gillan
English Musician
Infinity is almost impossible for an eight-year-old to grasp. It's an inquiring age, and you're beginning to shape your thoughts and questions about life in general at that stage.
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David Josiah Brewer
American Judge
The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach of the inquiring and scientific spear.
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Horace
Roman Poet
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Filipino Statesman
Our children are our most cherished possession. In their early years, we must make sure they get a healthy start in life. They must receive the right food for a healthy body, the right education for a bright and inquiring mind - and the equal opportunity for a meaningful job.
Quote examples
Thabo Mbeki
South African Statesman
I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we knew. To say you've got to inquire, you've got to be testing your knowledge all the time in order to be more effective in what you're doing.
Quote examples
Stanley Fish
American Writer
Any idea can be brought into the classroom if the point is to inquire into its structure, history, influence and so forth. But no idea belongs in the classroom if the point of introducing it is to recruit your students for the political agenda it may be thought to imply.
Quote examples
Thomas Jefferson
American President
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
Quote examples
Frances Wright
Scottish Writer
But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood?
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Lord Byron
British Poet
Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?
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David Guterson
American Author
Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.
Quote examples
Ian Gillan
English Musician
Infinity is almost impossible for an eight-year-old to grasp. It's an inquiring age, and you're beginning to shape your thoughts and questions about life in general at that stage.
Quote examples
David Josiah Brewer
American Judge
The time has passed in the history of the world when anything is too sacred to be touched, when anything is beyond the reach of the inquiring and scientific spear.
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Horace
Roman Poet
Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.
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