relinquish, look into sth

Toyota looks into layoffs
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
But the Japanese automaker may be about to relinquish that proud tradition. Japan's biggest business newspaper, the Nikkei, reported Friday that Toyota was ...


"Without substantial and sustained changes to the educational system, the United States will relinquish its leadership in the twenty-first century," reads a draft of the final report, due to be released next week by the Department of Education.

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look into sth phrasal verb
to examine the facts about a problem or situation:
We're looking into the possibility of merging the two departments.


relinquish Hide phonetics
verb [T] FORMAL
1 to give up something such as a responsibility or claim:
He has relinquished his claim to the throne.
She relinquished control of the family investments to her son.

2 to unwillingly stop holding or keeping something:
She relinquished her hold/grip on the steering wheel.

(from Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)