"detective" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

detective sustantivo

sustantivo + detective
Kolokacji: 31
police detective • homicide detective • narcotics detective • Manhattan detective • lead detective • ...
2. store detective = detektyw sklepowy store detective
  • To make a living, he took a job as a store detective.
  • He held other jobs as a shoe shop assistant, cinema manager and store detective.
  • He was the store detective, and he asked me to hand it over.
  • Two undercover store detectives ask them to return to the manager's office.
  • Carner was a store detective who appeared in five novels.
  • But then I must have got careless because a store detective caught me stealing a watch from a counter.
  • All you have to worry about then are the store detectives and alarm systems.
  • I didn't look out of place with the wire in my ear because so many store detectives and security guards wore them.
  • Everyone, it seems, is a store detective these days, and some stores are using bounty systems to try to lure more.
  • A job as a store detective ended when the store was doing poorly.
3. armchair detective = gabinetowy detektyw armchair detective
4. railroad detective = oficer śledczy kolejowy railroad detective
(5) lead, Singing, series
Kolokacji: 3
(6) Pinkerton, plainclothes
Kolokacji: 2
detective + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 41
detective story • detective work • detective novel • detective agency • detective fiction • detective sergeant • ...
detective + verbo
Kolokacji: 98
detective investigates • detective says • detective finds • detective goes • detective working • ...
verbo + detective
Kolokacji: 13
tell detectives • play detective • detective assigned • hire a detective • detective called • ...
adjetivo + detective
Kolokacji: 42
private detective • undercover detective • fictional detective • retired detective • young detective • ...
preposición + detective
Kolokacji: 6
to detectives • of detectives • with detectives • for detectives • from detectives • ...

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