Sekirov Dictionary

detective

/dɪˈtɛktɪv/

noun 3
verb 2
adjective 1
forms 3
phrases 1

noun3

•
a police officer whose work is to gather facts and evidence to solve crimes
- He worked as a detective with the agency for five years.
A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
•
(rare) A work of detective fiction.
- Read books that are of interest to you (no matter what kinds of, I, for instance, read detectives, help a lot), try not to use Engl-Russ. Dict. while reading; […] — 1997

verb2

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(informal) To be or act as or like a detective.
- The terminal server manager has to go detectiving around every so often collecting up these ``idle osf users and manually log out their ports on the terminal server. — 1995
•
(informal) To investigate or find information about (someone or something) as or like a detective.
- It's a response to his challenge when I asked where "up here" is. So I'm going to tell him _exactly_ where "up here" is as soon as I have "detectived" it. — 2001

adjective1

Employed in detecting.

forms

detectived · detectiving · detectives

Phrases with detective

detective work
Investigative research.

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