"criminalist" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: criminalists [plural]
Etymology: criminal + -ist Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*krey-}}, {{suffix|en|criminal|ist}} criminal + -ist Head templates: {{en-noun}} criminalist (plural criminalists)
  1. A person who specializes in criminal law. Categories (topical): Law enforcement
    Sense id: en-criminalist-en-noun-Dr2b97jF Disambiguation of Law enforcement: 57 43
  2. (US) A person who specializes in the collection and examination of forensic evidence at a crime scene. Tags: US Categories (topical): People Translations (specialist in the examination of forensic evidence at a crime scene): kriminalisto (Esperanto), rikostutkija (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-criminalist-en-noun-scxlgm4- Disambiguation of People: 42 58 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ist Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 28 72 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 15 85 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ist: 14 86 Disambiguation of 'specialist in the examination of forensic evidence at a crime scene': 10 90
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: criminalistics

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for criminalist meaning in English (2.5kB)

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