{
    "term": "detective",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person, especially a police officer, whose job is to investigate crimes and catch criminals",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a police/homicide/undercover detective"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Several objects were taken away by detectives from the anti-terrorist squad."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Detective Inspector (Roger) Brown"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a detective constable/sergeant/superintendent"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Sherlock Holmes was Conan Doyle's fictional detective."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Thomson was the lead detective in the Ramsay case."
                },
                {
                    "text": "detectives investigating the case"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A team of around 30 detectives and uniformed officers have been working on the case."
                },
                {
                    "text": "He was arrested in Spain by Scotland Yard detectives."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Detective Sergeant John Nelson"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Jobs", "Law and justice", "Crime and punishment"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["private", "undercover", "store"],
                "verb + detective": ["hire"],
                "detective + verb": ["investigate something"],
                "detective + noun": ["agency", "work", "fiction"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a person employed by somebody to find out information about somebody/something",
            "examples": [],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["private", "undercover", "store"],
                "verb + detective": ["hire"],
                "detective + verb": ["investigate something"],
                "detective + noun": ["agency", "work", "fiction"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈtektɪv/",
                "audio": "de/detective/detective__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/dɪˈtektɪv/",
                "audio": "de/detective/detective__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 19th cent.: from detect. The noun was originally short for detective policeman, from an adjectival use of the word in the sense ‘serving to detect’."
}