So if your local councillor goes on a "fact-finding" trip to Amsterdam, you know why.

Q. I have been invited to participate on a fact-finding trip paid for by a private source.

Every question diners asked meant a fact-finding trip to the kitchen.

One woman related details of her recent fact-finding trip to Siberia.

Congressmen and Senators are going off on vague 'fact-finding' trips, or returning to their districts.

He had developed a taste for scotch some time ago on a fact-finding trip to London.

They were on a fact-finding trip related to the project well before the state solicited proposals for the project.

One would think Americans would at least be here on fact-finding trips.

Lawmakers do, in fact, make many honest and valuable fact-finding trips.

He suggested that executives ask for a paid house-hunting or fact-finding trip to the new location.