Detective

Noun

 * 1)  a police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.
 * 2) a person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.

Synonyms

 * DT
 * consulting detective, private detective, private investigator
 * dick, private dick :

Derived terms

 * consulting detective
 * detective constable (DC)
 * detective sergeant (DS)
 * detective inspector (DI)
 * detective chief inspector (DCI)


 * detective superintendent (DSupt.)
 * detective chief superintendent (DCS)
 * house detective
 * private detective
 * woman detective constable (WDC)

Related terms

 * detect


 * detection


 * detector

Thesaurus
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

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:
 * German: Ermittler


 * Greek: αστυνομικός ερευνητής,
 * Hebrew: בלש (balash), בלשית (balashyt)
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Polish: oficer śledczy, detektyw /
 * Russian:, сыщик, оперативник


 * Bulgarian: разузнавач
 * Catalan: detectiu
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:, speurder
 * Estonian: detektiiv
 * French: ,
 * German: Detektiv, Privatdetektiv , Privatermittler
 * Greek:, ιδιωτικός ερευνητής


 * Hebrew: בלש (balash), בלשית (balashyt)
 * Hungarian: magánnyomozó,
 * Japanese:
 * Maltese: spjun, spjuna
 * Polish: detektyw /
 * Russian: сыщик,
 * Spanish:

Noun

 * 1) detective