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private detective
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun private detective has 1 sense
- private detective(n = noun.person) operative, pi, private eye, private investigator, shamus, sherlock - someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information; Array is a kind of detective
has particulars: hotel detective, house detective, house dick, inquiry agent, store detective
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