What does Detective mean?
Definitions for Detective
dɪˈtɛk tɪvDe·tec·tive
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Princeton's WordNet
detective, investigator, tec, police detectivenoun
a police officer who investigates crimes
detectivenoun
an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public
Wiktionary
detectivenoun
a police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.
detectivenoun
a person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
Webster Dictionary
Detectiveadjective
fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting crime or criminals; as, a detective officer
Detectivenoun
one who business it is so detect criminals or discover matters of secrecy
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Detective
A detective is an investigator, either a member of a police agency or a private person. The latter may be known as private investigators or "private eyes". Informally, and primarily in fiction, a detective is any licensed or unlicensed person who solves crimes, including historical crimes, or looks into records.
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Rank popularity for the word 'Detective' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4837
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Rank popularity for the word 'Detective' in Nouns Frequency: #1483
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The numerical value of Detective in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
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The numerical value of Detective in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of Detective in a Sentence
When the detective walked up, she didn’t have to open her mouth because her vest said ‘homicide,’.
Chief Johnson has significant experience managing large-scale special events and was instrumental in the operational planning and response of the 2012 NATO Summit, he has also served as a supervisor in the detective bureau and is currently completing his master’s degree in public policy and administration at Northwestern University.
Cydney Ireland said. The sprawling, 58,000-student main campus in downtown Columbus is one of the nation's largest. Fox News contributor Rod Wheeler, a former Washington DC homicide detective and an Ohio State University alum, said the school's police department is highly trained. People don’t need to panic.
The detective work of epidemiology will make or break the response to this outbreak.
My initial impression of Dennis Rader was that Dennis Rader wanted to challenge me, and what surprised me was the fact that there was n’t anything in Dennis Rader background that would correspond with the typical formula we have of serial killers. I recently heard a detective say that all serial killers have trauma in their background. He was wrong about that.
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- разузнавач, детективBulgarian
- detectiuCatalan, Valencian
- detektivCzech
- Privatermittler, Ermittler, Detektiv, Privatdetektiv, SchnüfflerGerman
- αστυνομικός ερευνητής, ιδιωτικός ερευνητής, ερευνητήςGreek
- detektivo, policana detektivoEsperanto
- detectiveSpanish
- detektiivEstonian
- کارآگاهPersian
- détective, enquêteurFrench
- resjersjeurWestern Frisian
- bleachtaire, lorgaireIrish
- detectiveGalician
- בלש, בלשיתHebrew
- nyomozó, magánnyomozó, detektívHungarian
- investigatoreItalian
- 探偵, 刑事Japanese
- ಪತ್ತೇದಾರಿKannada
- detectiveLatin
- titeketiwhiMāori
- detektifMalay
- spjun, spjunaMaltese
- speurder, detective, rechercheurDutch
- detektivNorwegian
- oficer śledczy, detektywPolish
- detetive, detectivePortuguese
- следователь, оперативник, сыщик, детективRussian
- kriminalpolis, detektivSwedish
- thám tửVietnamese
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