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Definition of Private investigator
1. Noun. Someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information.
Generic synonyms: Detective
Specialized synonyms: Hotel Detective, House Detective, House Dick, Inquiry Agent, Store Detective
Definition of Private investigator
1. Noun. An agent hired by a private party for the purpose of investigation or evidence gathering. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Private Investigator
Literary usage of Private investigator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. When Your Child Is Missing: A Family Survival Guide by Shay Bilchik (1999)
"We still haven't gotten back his stuffed animals. lnform your assigned law
enforcement investigator about your decision to hire a private investigator. ln ..."
2. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"By comparison, in Walter Mosley's Devil in a Blue Dress (1990), it takes about
one hundred pages for African-American private investigator Easy Rawlins to ..."
3. Adoption Searcher's Handbook: A Guidebook for Adoptees, Birth Parents ...by Norma Tillman by Norma Tillman (1994)
"A licensed private investigator and author of HOW TO FIND ALMOST ANYONE, ANYWHERE.
Norma has located over 1000 missing persons throughout the United States ..."
4. Candlelight by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1993)
"Rodney Stich has been a government and private investigator for the past thirty
years, holding federal authority to determine violations of federal law. ..."
5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"To-day, the refinement of methods is rendering it impossible for the private
investigator to purchase or even to construct the elaborate apparatus he ..."