detective

Universal Words noun (abbreviation Det) 1 a person, especially a police officer, whose job is to examine crimes and catch criminals: Detective Inspector (Roger) Brown * detectives from the anti-terrorist squad * a detective story / novel seealsoSTOREDETECTIVE 2 a person employed by sb to find out information about sb/sth seealsoPRIVATEDETECTIVE