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POLICE DETECTIVE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does police detective mean?
• POLICE DETECTIVE (noun)
The noun POLICE DETECTIVE has 1 sense:
1. a police officer who investigates crimes
Familiarity information: POLICE DETECTIVE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A police officer who investigates crimes
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
detective; investigator; police detective; tec
Hypernyms ("police detective" is a kind of...):
officer; police officer; policeman (a member of a police force)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "police detective"):
dick; gumshoe; hawkshaw (someone who is a detective)
plainclothesman (a detective who wears civilian clothes on duty)
tracer (an investigator who is employed to find missing persons or missing goods)
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