Synonym: investigator, police detective, tec. Similar words: protective, detect, objective, perspective, collective, effectively, respectively, effectiveness. Meaning: [-tɪv] 
n. 1. a police officer who investigates crimes 2. an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public.
n. 1. a police officer who investigates crimes 2. an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public. 
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(91) Let me make sure I understand you, officer-mister detective.
(92) He was a very intelligent and perceptive young detective.
(93) A detective constable was working away in a corner.
(94) Big coat, like a detective from the 1940s.
(95) If you are aiming almost for pure comedy, then your detective will need only the smallest core of toughness or commonsense.
(96) Robert Crais broke into mystery writing not by being a cop, a lawyer or a private detective.
(97) Unless she and Mr Greenleaf decided to stay to see what the detective was going to do with him.
(98) Your detective of the detective story, of course, went about seeking information.
(99) A detective, more than a week after the incident is reported, is assigned to the case.
(100) She was transferred to the department last October by Mr Newing after making her formal complaint and is now a detective.
(101) It takes some detective work to trace the symptom back to its cause.
(102) Uniformed men and Wycliffe's detective constables were questioning the very few people who actually lived in the street.
(103) The detective was constantly surprised at the men that some women deigned to have relationships with.
(104) She harried the detective constable who was checking Christine Mills' alibis.
(105) It was the feeling she had had as a child when she frightened herself with a detective story.
(106) Elizabeth did not like detective stories[sentencedict.com], because some one was usually hanged at the end of them.
(107) When Lombardy left home about 8 a.m., the detective followed and alerted an officer in a patrol car.
(108) Agatha Christie's greatest fictional creation was the Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot.
(109) Finding the missing parts has been a lucky blending of good fortune and good detective work.
(110) The highest award was ￡307,781 to a computer expert who injured his back helping a store detective stop a suspected shoplifter.
(111) Oracle has denied knowledge of the detective agency's methods, which included sifting through rubbish bins.
(112) The dawn raids happened less than a day after a Detective Sergeant was shot with a machine gun in Kent.
(113) Private eye bin bagged A PRIVATE detective was yesterday fined ￡150 for stealing a national newspaper executive's rubbish.
(114) A detective chief super should immerse himself in bumf until the last trump sounds and like it.
(115) Everything depended on what kind of man the detective would be.
(116) Five crooks,(www.Sentencedict.com) one detective and a drug deal gone sour.
(117) Anyone with information is being asked to call Detective Mike Place.
(118) Form is one of the hidden assets of the detective story.
(119) Brilliant detective work with a little luck tossed in to catch the savvy killer.
(120) The attorney said the former detective coerced a confession from a co-defendant, who implicated his client, Howard McCowan.
More similar words: protective, detect, objective, perspective, collective, effectively, respectively, effectiveness, irrespective of, protection, active, actively, distinctive, attractive, productive, active transport, environmental protection, architect, architecture, native, motive, activity, activist, incentive, relative, section, cognitive, sensitive, supportive, narrative.