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house-detective

house-detective is the alternative spelling of house detective.

Meaning of house detective

Noun

house detective (plural house detectives)

  1. A person employed by a privately owned establishment, such as a hotel or large retail store, with the job of preventing wrongdoing and apprehending violators of laws or other regulations.
    • I went to Cloran, the house detective at the hotel here in New York where Deemer was murdered.1920, Frank L. Packard, chapter 21, in The White Moll

Forms of house-detective

pluralhouse-detectives

Questions about house-detective

What is house-detective the alternative spelling of?
House-detective is the alternative spelling of house detective.

Words near house-detective in the dictionary

  1. house-calls
  2. house-coat
  3. house-coats
  4. house-commune
  5. house-communes
  6. house-detective
  7. house-detectives
  8. house-door
  9. house-doors
  10. house-flag
  11. house-flags

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