Usage Note
Perquisition specifically denotes an official police search of a property, equivalent to 'search' or 'raid' in legal English. It almost always appears in the phrase perquisition à domicile or as une perquisition judiciaire. The associated verb is perquisitionner (to search premises), used intransitively: la police a perquisitionné.
Examples
"La perquisition a duré plusieurs heures."
Natural Translation
The search lasted several hours.

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