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Superintendent vs Detective - What's the difference?

superintendent | detective |

As nouns the difference between superintendent and detective

is that superintendent is a person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something while detective is detective (police officer who looks for evidence).

As an adjective superintendent

is overseeing; superintending.

superintendent

English

Noun

(wikipedia superintendent) (en noun)
  • A person who is authorized to supervise, direct or administer something.
  • A police rank used in Commonwealth countries, ranking above chief inspector, and below chief superintendent.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1928, author=Lawrence R. Bourne
  • , title=Well Tackled! , chapter=7 citation , passage=“No, don't,” replied the superintendent ; “in fact, I'd rather you made yourself conspicuous elsewhere. Go down to the landing stage and cross to New Brighton or Wallasey—doesn't matter which—and come back. No doubt you will be seen, and reported to have gone across.”}}
  • The manager of a building, usually a communal residence, who is responsible for keeping the facilities functional and often collecting rent or similar payments, either as also the building's landlord or on behalf of same. Often abbreviated "super".
  • (chiefly, US) A janitor.
  • Synonyms

    * manager * foreman * chief, head, head man * controller, comptroller * overseer * supervisor

    Derived terms

    * (abbreviation) * SP (abbreviation) * chief superintendent * detective superintendent (DSupt) * detective chief superintendent (DCS)

    See also

    * (policing ) police constable (PC), woman police constable (WPC), detective constable (DC), detective sergeant (DS), detective inspector (DI), detective chief inspector (DCI)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Overseeing; superintending.
  • 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)