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Does "they would have to get back to us on that" mean "they must return to us to report that"?

 
 
Reply Wed 25 Apr, 2012 12:58 am

Context:

“They said, ‘We teach all our agents that if they go to Amsterdam, they cannot smoke marijuana,’ ” the official said. “But they couldn’t tell us whether there was anything explicit in their rules and regulations that said anything about whether one of their personnel could spend the night with a woman in a foreign country. They said they would have to get back to us on that, and they haven’t.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/25/us/2-more-secret-service-employees-resigning.html?_r=1&hp
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Reply Wed 25 Apr, 2012 02:03 am
@oristarA,
It means they don't know the answer to your question and will have to research it and tell you the answer later.
oristarA
 
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Reply Wed 25 Apr, 2012 04:27 am
@engineer,
Thank you Engineer
JTT
 
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Reply Wed 25 Apr, 2012 09:44 pm
@oristarA,
I'll get back to you on that, Ori.

[Actually, not. E handled it just fine.]
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