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house detectives

house detectives is the plural 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

Questions about house detectives

What is house detectives the plural of?
House detectives is the plural of house detective.

Words near house detectives in the dictionary

  1. house crickets
  2. house curtain
  3. house curtains
  4. house cut
  5. house detective
  6. house detectives
  7. house dick
  8. house dicks
  9. house divided
  10. house dog
  11. house dogs

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