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STORE DETECTIVE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A private detective employed by a merchant to stop pilferage
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Hypernyms ("store detective" is a kind of...):
operative; PI; private detective; private eye; private investigator; shamus; sherlock (someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information)