Meaning

1 senses
  1. (idiomatic, uncountable)Investigative research.

    We did some detective work and found out that the water was getting in through a cracked pipe.

    Detektivarbeit

More definitions
  • a police investigation to determine the perpetrator

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Sami kept doing the detective work.

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  2. Lukas decided to do some detective work.

  3. Ziri did some detective work of his own.

  4. Sami did the detective work.

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  5. Forensics officers and criminal investigations detectives continued to work at the cordoned-off unit and its surrounds.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
investigative research:

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

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