detective
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++de·tec·tive /dɪˈtektɪv/ ●●○ AWL noun [countable] 1. SCPa police officer whose job is to discover information about crimes and catch criminals 侦探，警探 → store detective2 (also private detective)BOFIND OUT someone who is paid to discover information about someone or something 私人侦探，私家侦探 She hired a detective to find out if her husband was having an affair. 她雇了一个私人侦探调查她丈夫是否有外遇。3 detective work efforts to discover information, find out how something works, answer a difficult question etc 调查工作，研究工作 It took a lot of detective work to discover the cause of the problem. 经过大量的调查研究工作才发现问题的原因。4. detective story/novel etc ALAMTa story etc about a crime, often a murder, and a detective who tries to find out who did it 侦探故事/小说等Examples from the Corpus
detective• Detectives made a TV appeal for anyone with any information about the crime to contact them.• The customers say you'd have to be a detective to make sense of it.• I'm a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?• Anyone with information is being asked to call Detective Mike Place.• Let me make sure I understand you, officer-mister detective.• a private detective• The lock snapped and the detective levered up the bottom section.• Furthermore, the detectives are no longer in that basic symbol of police identity - the uniform.• Form is one of the hidden assets of the detective story.• Unless she and Mr Greenleaf decided to stay to see what the detective was going to do with him.• He was a very intelligent and perceptive young detective.de·tec·tive nounChineseSyllable
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detective
de‧tec‧tive AC /dɪˈtektɪv/
noun [countable]1. a police officer whose job is to discover information about crimes and catch criminals ⇨ store detective
2. (also private detective) someone who is paid to discover information about someone or something:
She hired a detective to find out if her husband was having an affair.
3. detective work efforts to discover information, find out how something works, answer a difficult question etc:
It took a lot of detective work to discover the cause of the problem.
4. detective story/novel etc a story etc about a crime, often a murder, and a detective who tries to find out who did it
■ people in the police
▪police officer (also officer ) a member of the police. In British English, police officer is used especially in more formal contexts, for example in news reports. In everyday English, British people still usually say policeman or policewoman: a senior police officer | He was sentenced to life in prison for killing a police officer. | He is the officer in charge of the case. | Officer Fayard (=in the US ‘Officer’ is used in the title of police officers)
▪policeman a man who is a member of the police: an off-duty policeman | He’s a former policeman.
▪policewoman a woman who is a member of the police: The girl, accompanied by a policewoman and two social workers, was seen in private by Sheriff George Crozier.
▪PC/WPC abbreviation used in the job titles of British police offiicers. PC means ‘Police Constable’ and WPC means 'Woman Police Constable': PC Keith Fletcher | WPC Susan Larkin
▪detective a police officer whose job is to discover who is responsible for crimes: Detectives are investigating the death of a baby boy. | Detective Inspector John Hartwell
▪plain-clothes adjective a plain-clothes police officer wears ordinary clothes instead of a uniform: Two plain-clothes police officers, acting as hotel security men, kept watch on him.
▪constable a British police officer of the lowest rank: a police constable | Constable Robin Cameron
▪chief constable a senior police officer who is in charge of the police in a particular area in Britain: the chief constable of North Yorkshire police
▪cop informal a police officer: You’d better call the cops.
▪trooper a US police officer in a state police force: a New Jersey state trooper
de‧tec‧tive AC /dɪˈtektɪv/
noun [countable]1. a police officer whose job is to discover information about crimes and catch criminals ⇨ store detective2. (also private detective) someone who is paid to discover information about someone or something:
3. detective work efforts to discover information, find out how something works, answer a difficult question etc:
4. detective story/novel etc a story etc about a crime, often a murder, and a detective who tries to find out who did it
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