Definition of Private eye

1. Noun. Someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information.


Definition of Private eye

1. Noun. (idiomatic) A private personal detective, employed to gather information about someone. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Private Eye

private-eye
private-sector
private-wire house
private-wire houses
private branch exchange
private candidate
private candidates
private corporation
private cost
private detective
private detectives
private enterprise number
private enterprise numbers
private eye (current term)
private eyes
private foundation
private instructor
private investigator
private investigators
private joke
private jokes
private judgment
private key
private law
private limited liability company
private line
private nuisance

Literary usage of Private eye

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Technology 2002 (1993)
"The key component to the Bedridden Workstation is the private eye display device. Rather than placing a CRT in front of the user, the private eye instead ..."

2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"WILLS' mind's eye, or as he would probably have written in the stage-direction, to the " small private eye of the mind of WILLS,"—"Beautiful Norman ..."

3. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1835)
"... we turn over the simple leaves of this diary} which obviously was not intended for any pur- pour 1 ul for his own private eye and collected meditations. ..."

4. Our Women: Chapters on the Sex-discord by Arnold Bennett (1920)
"The duty to the private eye is ignored when it need not be. And wives cannot argue that husbands are similarly negligent, because men have not a similar ..."

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