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Definition of Private investigator

1. Noun. Someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information.

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 ..."

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