police detective

Questions about police detective

What does police detective mean?

police detective means "a police officer who investigates crimes".

What is another word for police detective?

Close synonyms include detective, investigator, tec. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is police detective a common word?

police detective is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for police detective come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.