store detective

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   a private detective employed by a merchant to stop pilferage

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Questions about store detective

What does store detective mean?

store detective means "a private detective employed by a merchant to stop pilferage".

Is store detective a common word?

store 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.