Definition of Detective agency

1. Noun. An agency that makes inquiries for its clients.

Generic synonyms: Agency

Lexicographical Neighbors of Detective Agency

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detectible
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detections
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detective agency (current term)
detective novel
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detector van
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Literary usage of Detective agency

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Police Administration: A Critical Study of Police Organisations in the by Leonhard Felix Fuld (1909)
"This is true in the case of the detective agency which serves the American Bankers' Association, as it is in the case of the special policemen serving our ..."

2. Industrial Combinations and Trusts by William Harrison Spring Stevens (1913)
"The man who went under the name of GN was really named V . He forwarded the reports sent him by O to the F detective agency at Albany, and they in turn ..."

3. Public Opinion and the Steel Strike: Supplementary Reports of the by Bureau of Industrial Research (1921)
"Like Mr. Dewson of Corporations Auxiliary, he declared that his company was not a detective agency. Sherman Service, on the occasion of the Chicago raids, ..."

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