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Definition of Store detective
1. Noun. A private detective employed by a merchant to stop pilferage.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Store Detective
Literary usage of Store detective
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1921)
"The chief of police said to the store detective, 'The plaintiff says she did not
... The store detective said, 'I know she is the woman. This is the woman. ..."
2. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1921)
"The chief of police said to the store detective, 'The plaintiff says she did not
... The store detective said, 'I know she is the woman. This is the woman. ..."
3. Business Employments by Frederick James Allen (1916)
"Among positions not enumerated, and found in other kinds of stores, may be
mentioned two, the furrier and the store detective. The Furrier. ..."
4. Police Administration: A Critical Study of Police Organisations in the by Leonhard Felix Fuld (1909)
"When an innocent woman has been subjected by a store detective or his female
assistant to such a ..."
5. The Girl and the Job by Helen Christene Hoerle, Florence B.. Saltzberg (1919)
"The store detective's work is invaluable, saving the company many dollars in the
course of a year. The hotel detective is another valuable aid to society. ..."
6. Where Have My Profits Gone?? by Maurice Philip Gould (1911)
"It is the business of a "store detective," whether human or "carbon," to catch "with
the goods on" those who are doing the stealing or other crooked ..."
7. Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes by Jane Addams (1910)
"The theft was discovered by the relentless department store detective who, for "the
sake of the example," insisted upon taking the case into court. ..."
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