"detective" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

detective sustantivo

sustantivo + detective

Kolokacji: 31

police detective • homicide detective • narcotics detective • Manhattan detective • lead detective • ...

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 • ...

frequent collocations

Kolokacji: 8

collocations grouped by meanings

Grup znaczeniowych: 14

(1) private, undercover, black

Kolokacji: 3

1. private detective = prywatny detektyw private detective

Private Detective, Private detective

Up to about a year ago he was a private detective, but has no work now.
I really didn't understand why he needed a private detective.
Your mother says you told her he was a private detective?
You don't need a private detective to make a run like that.
What if the only thing she saw in him was an opportunity to play private detective?
Why do you have all the private detectives running around the last couple of days?
She tried to run away once, but he sent a private detective after her.
We had more than our share of private detectives for a while.
You didn't need a private detective to check them out.
He could be only one thing, I was sure: a private detective.

2. undercover detective = tajny oficer śledczy undercover detective

3. black detective = czarnoskóry oficer śledczy black detective

(2) fictional, real, real-life, existential

Kolokacji: 4

(3) retired, off-duty

Kolokacji: 2

(4) young, experienced, new, old, corrupt

Kolokacji: 5

(5) great, good, famous, best

Kolokacji: 4

(6) amateur, professional

Kolokacji: 2

(7) female, fellow, male

Kolokacji: 3

(8) senior, British, junior

Kolokacji: 3

(9) psychic, brilliant, greatest, clever

Kolokacji: 4

(10) local, medical

Kolokacji: 2

(11) hard-boiled, tough

Kolokacji: 2

(12) Belgian, French, American

Kolokacji: 3

(13) Savage, cynical, dogged

Kolokacji: 3

(14) forensic, literary

Kolokacji: 2

preposición + detective

Kolokacji: 6

to detectives • of detectives • with detectives • for detectives • from detectives • ...

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