"detector van" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: detector vans [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} detector van (plural detector vans)
  1. (British) A vehicle equipped with electronic instrumentation that can detect the oscillator of a domestic television, used by the licensing authority to check that a household with no TV licence does not have a television receiver Tags: British Synonyms: television detector van, TV detector van
    Sense id: en-detector_van-en-noun-QsKRAgxI Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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