detective
/dɪˈtɛktɪv/ nom B1En français : détective, enquêteur, enquêteuse
- A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator. · He worked as a detective with the agency for five years.
- A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
Pluriel detectives
Dans la bibliothèque
He was a young but trusted member of the detective force, who had distinguished himself in several cases which had been intrusted to him.
Once—well, I can hardly tell about the once to an official detective.
I don’t take much stock of detectives in novels—chaps that do things and never let you see how they do them.
“Jonathan Wild wasn’t a detective, and he wasn’t in a novel.
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