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store detective

store detective noun: a person employed in a shop to detect and prevent shoplifting.

Noun

store detective (plural store detectives)

  1. A person employed in a shop to detect and prevent shoplifting.
    • Behold your future, Cavendish the Younger.[…]On escalators, on trunk roads, in supermarket aisles, the living will overtake you, incessantly. Elegant women will not see you. Store detectives will not see you. Salespeople will not see you, unless they sell stair lifts or fraudulent insurance...2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, pages 180-181

Forms of store detective

pluralstore detectives

Questions about store detective

What does store detective mean?
Store detective means a person employed in a shop to detect and prevent shoplifting.
What part of speech is store detective?
Store detective is a noun.
What is the plural of store detective?
The plural of store detective is store detectives.

Words near store detective in the dictionary

  1. store cards
  2. store cheese
  3. store cheeses
  4. store cupboard
  5. store cupboards
  6. store detective
  7. store detectives
  8. store farm
  9. store farms
  10. store manager
  11. store managers

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