Dick
Dick noun - A person not on the police force who investigates criminal or illicit activity or searches for missing persons.
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Operatives and dick are semantically related In some cases you can replace term "Operatives" with "Dick", this nouns are similar.
Operatives
Dick and operatives are semantically related in private investigator topic. Sometimes you can use "Dick" instead a noun "Operatives".
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- In the Continental Op stories by Dashiell Hammett, one of the Op's fellow operatives, Dick Foley, is described as talking "like a Scotchman's telegram."
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