DETECTIVE WORK as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a police investigation to determine the perpetrator
   Synonym(s)
   • detecting (what does detecting mean?)
   • detection (what does detection mean?)
   • sleuthing (what does sleuthing mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • detection is hard on the feet
   Hypernyms(s) detective work is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • police work (what does police work mean?)
   • police investigation (what does police investigation mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • spy (what does spy mean?)
   • stag (what does stag mean?)
   • snoop (what does snoop mean?)
   • sleuth (what does sleuth mean?)
   • detect (what does detect mean?)
   • observe (what does observe mean?)
   • find (what does find mean?)
   • discover (what does discover mean?)
   • notice (what does notice mean?)