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Definition of Private eye
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 eye
1. Noun. (idiomatic) A private personal detective, employed to gather information about someone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Private Eye
Literary usage of Private eye
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technology 2002 (1993)
"The key component to the Bedridden Workstation is the private eye display device.
Rather than placing a CRT in front of the user, the private eye instead ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"WILLS' mind's eye, or as he would probably have written in the stage-direction,
to the " small private eye of the mind of WILLS,"—"Beautiful Norman ..."
3. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1835)
"... we turn over the simple leaves of this diary} which obviously was not intended
for any pur- pour 1 ul for his own private eye and collected meditations. ..."
4. Our Women: Chapters on the Sex-discord by Arnold Bennett (1920)
"The duty to the private eye is ignored when it need not be. And wives cannot
argue that husbands are similarly negligent, because men have not a similar ..."
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