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Private investigator   /prˈaɪvət ɪnvˈɛstəgˌeɪtər/   Listen
Private investigator

noun
1.
Someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information.  Synonyms: operative, PI, private detective, private eye, shamus, sherlock.






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"Private investigator" Quotes from Famous Books



... cancer statistics for more than twenty-five years) seems to me to offer, more than all others, a reasonable hope of ultimate success. It is independent of all sacrifice of animal life. It involves, however, an expenditure far greater than is possible for any private investigator, and probably only by the co-operation of the Government can it be undertaken with any chance of success. Yet, if Society can once be aroused to a recognition of the need for the completest possible investigation concerning malignant disease, and ...
— An Ethical Problem - Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals • Albert Leffingwell



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