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detector van

detector van noun: 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.

Noun

detector van (plural detector vans)

  1. (UK) 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
    Synonyms:
    television detector van, TV detector van

Synonyms of detector van

  • television detector van
  • TV detector van

Forms of detector van

pluraldetector vans

Questions about detector van

What does detector van mean?
Detector van means 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.
What part of speech is detector van?
Detector van is a noun.
What is the plural of detector van?
The plural of detector van is detector vans.

Words near detector van in the dictionary

  1. detectograph
  2. detectographs
  3. detector
  4. detector bar
  5. detector bars
  6. detector van
  7. detector vans
  8. detectoring
  9. detectorism
  10. detectorist
  11. detectorists

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