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nouna police officer who investigates crimes
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nounan investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the publictype of:
Definition that contains detective
- dick someone who is a detective
- collins English writer noted for early detective novels (1824-1889)
- pi someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information
- holmes a fictitious detective in stories by A. Conan Doyle
- marsh New Zealand writer of detective stories (1899-1982)
- operative someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information
- christie prolific English writer of detective stories (1890-1976)
- chandler United States writer of detective thrillers featuring the character of Philip Marlowe (1888-1959)
- wright United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939)
- sherlock someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information