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Definition of House detective
1. Noun. A private detective employed by a hotel or retail store.
Generic synonyms: Operative, Pi, Private Detective, Private Eye, Private Investigator, Shamus, Sherlock
Definition of House detective
1. Noun. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of House Detective
Literary usage of House detective
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hearings Beginning March 9, 1908-April 30, 1908 by United States Congress. House. Select committee under House resolution 288. [from old catalog] (1908)
"... been no less Hmn three there, so the house detective tells me—that is, the
New Willard house detective tells me there has been from three upward there. ..."
2. Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical Notes by Jane Addams (1910)
"He was caught at the door by the house detective as one of those children whom
each local department store arrests in the weeks before Christmas at the ..."
3. Forty Years at Hull-House: Being "Twenty Years at Hull-House" and "The by Jane Addams, Lillian D. Wald (1910)
"He was caught at the door by the house detective as one of those children whom
each local department store arrests in the weeks before Christmas at the ..."
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