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English
Noun
leading question (plural leading questions)
- A question that suggests the answer or that contains the information for which the examiner is looking.
1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, , →OCLC, part I, page 214:He alluded constantly to Europe, to the people I was supposed to know there - putting leading questions as to my acquaintances in the sepulchral city, and so on.
Translations
suggestive interrogation
- Bulgarian: насочващ въпрос m (nasočvašt vǎpros)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 誘導性問題 / 诱导性问题 (yòudǎoxìng wèntí), 誘導性詢問 / 诱导性询问 (yòudǎoxìng xúnwèn), 引導性問題 / 引导性问题 (yǐndǎoxìng wèntí)
- Finnish: johdatteleva kysymys
- French: question orientée f, question tendancieuse f, question suggestive f
- German: Suggestivfrage (de) f
- Japanese: 誘導尋問 (ゆうどうじんもん, yūdō jinmon)
- Maori: pawa, ui kukume
- Polish: pytanie sugestywne n
- Russian: наводя́щий вопро́с m (navodjáščij voprós)
- Spanish: pregunta confirmante m, pregunta confirmadora f, pregunta orientada f, pregunta tendenciosa f, pregunta sugestiva f
- Swedish: ledande fråga c
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