Dci vs Detective - What's the difference?

dci | detective |

Detective is a derived term of dci.

Dci is likely misspelled.

Dci has no English definition.

As a noun detective is

a police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.

dci

Translingual

Alternative forms

* (roman numeral) dci, DLLI, dlli

Number

(mul-number)

A Roman numeral representing six hundred and one ().

detective

English

(wikipedia detective)

Noun

(en noun)

(law enforcement) A police officer who looks for evidence as part of solving a crime; an investigator.

* {{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne

, title=Well Tackled! , chapter=7 citation , passage=The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.}}

A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.

Synonyms

* (law enforcement) DT (abbreviation), Det (abbreviation) * (person employed to find information) private detective, private investigator * (person employed to find information) dick , private dick :(slang)

Derived terms

* (sense) detective constable (DC) * (sense) detective sergeant (DS) * (sense) detective inspector (DI) * (sense) detective chief inspector (DCI) * detective story * (sense) detective superintendent () * (sense) detective chief superintendent (DCS) * house detective * private detective * woman detective constable (WDC)