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store detectives

store detectives is the plural of store detective.

Meaning of store detective

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

Questions about store detectives

What is store detectives the plural of?
Store detectives is the plural of store detective.

Words near store detectives in the dictionary

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

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