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private_detective
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[ noun ] (work) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information
Synonyms private_eye operative private_investigator sherlock shamus PI Used in print (R. F. Shaw, "The `Private Eye`"...)Today the private_detective will also investigate insurance_claims or handle divorce cases , but his primary function remains what it has always been , to assist those who have money in their unending struggle with those who have not . It is from this unpromising background that the fictional private_detective was recruited . In this way , the private_detective gets the best of two possible worlds . Now , although the roots of the mystery_story in serious literature go_back as far as Balzac , Dickens , and Poe , it was not until the closing decades of the 19_th century that the private_detective became an established figure in popular fiction . Driven from the marketplace by the course of history , our hero disguises himself as a private_detective . Related terms |
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