inquiry agent

1. 1.

   a private detective

   Broaderprivate detective

   United Kingdom

Questions about inquiry agent

What does inquiry agent mean?

inquiry agent means "a private detective".

Is inquiry agent a common word?

inquiry agent 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.