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A special agent of similar ability to the fictional James Bond.
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Someone who works for an intelligence agency
adj
Having membership in a caste.
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A police officer who maintains criminal records and analyzes them for intelligence.
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(espionage) The person who supervises and handles communication with an agent in the field.
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(chiefly US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.
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A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
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(idiomatic) investigative research
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Alternative spelling of house detective [A person employed by a privately owned establishment, such as a hotel or large retail store, with the job of preventing wrongdoing and apprehending violators of laws or other regulations.]
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A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but how they have done so.
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(dated) An office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.
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(US, law enforcement) A division of a law enforcement agency investigating incidents and plausible suspicions of lawbreaking and professional misconduct attributed to officers on the force.
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Information obtained by a detective or police officer that allows him or her to discover further details about a crime or incident.
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(US, law and law enforcement) a physical or photographic queue of people allegedly involved in a crime, allowing a witness to identify them
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(law enforcement, chiefly Canada, US) Someone who police have reason to believe may have a connection to a crime, or to possess important information relating to that crime, but who has not been accused or charged by authorities nor been officially deemed to be a suspect.
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(dated, countable) An operative employed by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency founded by Allan Pinkerton (1819–1884).
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A subgenre of crime fiction which portrays the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. Unlike in other types of crime fiction, the perpetrator may be known at the outset of the story.
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(UK) A police officer responsible for the planning, organisation, management and control of crime, missing person and counter-terrorism searches
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Any agent hired by a private party for the purpose of investigation or evidence gathering.
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(colloquial) A private investigator; a private detective.
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(idiomatic) A private personal detective, employed to gather information about someone.
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An agent hired by a private party for the purpose of investigation or evidence gathering.
v
To control a person, event, or organisation.
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(informal) A private detective.
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(UK, historical) An officer in London appointed to examine the bodies of the dead, and report the cause of death.
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A police force operating in secrecy and outside the normal boundaries of law and hidden from the public, usually in support of a totalitarian government's political policies to suppress political dissent through the use of methods including intimidation, violence, and surveillance.
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(US, slang) A private detective; originally, a policeman or police detective.
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A series of novels by Arthur Conan Doyle about a consulting detective with keen observational awareness, astute logical reasoning and professional forensic skills; also related media based on the books, such as movies.
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A detective of the United States government.
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An extremely skillful or dedicated detective
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Any famous, successful detective, especially a fictitious one.
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A specialized group tasked with testing the effectiveness of an organization's ability to protect assets by attempting to circumvent, defeat or otherwise thwart that organization's internal and external security.
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Alternative form of vousvoyer [Synonym of vouvoy]
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A novel or drama concerning a crime (usually a murder) in which a detective follows clues to determine the perpetrator.
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