Investigative meetings? Act soon with insult going round (13)

I believe the answer is:

consultations

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'investigative meetings?' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both acts as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I can't see?

'act soon with insult going round' is the wordplay.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'going round' indicates an anagram.
'act'+'soon'='actsoon'
'actsoon' put after 'insult' is 'insultactsoon'.
'insultactsoon' anagrammed gives 'CONSULTATIONS'.

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