 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
detective
noun
1: a police officer who investigates crimes [syn: {investigator},
{tec}, {police detective}]
2: an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information
not easily available to the public
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Detective \De*tect"ive\, adjective
Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detecting
crime or criminals; as, a detective officer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Detective \De*tect"ive\, noun
One who business it is so detect criminals or discover
matters of secrecy.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
104 Moby Thesaurus words for "detective":
Bow Street runner, FBI, FBI agent, Federal, G-man, MP,
Secret Service, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes, T-man, asker, bailiff,
beadle, beagle, bound bailiff, captain, catchpole, catechist,
chief of police, commissioner, constable, cop, copper,
cross-interrogator, cross-questioner, deputy, deputy sheriff, dick,
examiner, eye, fed, federal, flic, gendarme, government man,
gumshoe, hawkshaw, hotel detective, house detective, house dick,
inquirer, inquiry agent, inquisitionist, inquisitor, inspector,
interlocutor, interpellator, interrogator, interrogatrix,
interviewer, investigator, lictor, lieutenant, mace-bearer,
marshal, mounted policeman, narc, officer, operative,
opinion-sampler, patrolman, peace officer, peeper, plainclothesman,
police captain, police commissioner, police constable,
police detective, police inspector, police matron, police officer,
police sergeant, policeman, policewoman, poller, pollster,
portreeve, private detective, private eye, private investigator,
prober, querier, querist, questioner, questionist, quizzer, reeve,
revenuer, roundsman, sampler, secret agent, sergeant,
sergeant at arms, sheriff, sleuth, snoop, snooper, store detective,
superintendent, tec, tipstaff, tipstaves, treasury agent,
trooper
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