What does house detective mean?

house detective means "a private detective employed by a hotel or retail store".

What is another word for house detective?

Close synonyms include hotel detective, house dick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is house detective a common word?

house detective is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

House detective — meaning and 2 synonyms

noun

1 senseA person, place, thing, quality or idea.

1.
a private detective employed by a hotel or retail store
Synonymshotel detective house dick
Broaderprivate detective

Questions about house detective

What does house detective mean?: house detective means "a private detective employed by a hotel or retail store".
What is another word for house detective?: Close synonyms include hotel detective, house dick. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.
Is house detective a common word?

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