English-Dutch translations for detective

• detective
  Het Parlement moet geen detectivebureau zijn. Parliament should not be a detective agency.
• speurder
• rechercheur
  Dat stond eergisteren in de . De schreef gisteren hoe de directeur van de Duitse vereniging van rechercheurs terugkomt en zegt: “Het is zinloos. Yesterday’s reports that the head of the Federation of German Detectives said on his return: ‘It is pointless.

Definition of detective

• A police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator
• A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public
• Employed in detecting

Synonyms

• Det
• private dick
• sleuth

Related words

• detective story
• detective novel
• detective work
• detective agency
• detective chief superintendent
• detective fiction
• private detective