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detective (40 synonym found)

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Sherlock

questionist

private investigator

pollster

poller

investigator

opinion-sampler

interpellator

prober

FBI

inquiry agent

house dick

private detective

Sherlock Holmes

plainclothesman

police detective

T-man

hotel detective

querist

Secret Service

questioner

secret agent

inquisitor

sampler

store detective

sleuth

interviewer

treasury agent

interlocutor

catechist

interrogatrix

quizzer

cross-questioner

trooper

querier

interrogator

FBI agent

cross-interrogator

inquisitionist

Bow Street runner

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Definition of detective:

(n) : a police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; a person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public

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Definition of detective:

(n) : a police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; a person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public

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