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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
private investigator
noun
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▪ The Twiggs hired a private investigator to find their real daughter.
Wiktionary
private investigator

n. An agent hired by a private party for the purpose of investigation or evidence gathering.

WordNet
private investigator

n. someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information [syn: private detective, PI, private eye, operative, shamus, sherlock]

Wikipedia
Private investigator

A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, or inquiry agent, is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services. Private detectives/investigators often work for attorneys in civil and criminal cases.

Private Investigator (Indian TV Series)

Private Investigator (P.I.) was an Indian crime fiction- detective TV series which aired on Star Plus on Sunday evening. It was produced by Fremantle Media India Productions. It starred Mrinal Dutt as Raffe Roy Choudhary in the main lead.

Usage examples of "private investigator".

I stick my oar in now and again, just to remind them I haven't died, and I try to do my own small bit for truth and justice as a private investigator, but truth be told, on the whole the important life of the city just passes me by.

The Campbells had loaned out their private Investigator: the man called Razor.

The last Prefect of Twelve Seas, Galwinius, was a man of such corruption that they should have given me a medal for my part in running him out of town, but the Guards don't appreciate a Private Investigator cutting off their supply of bribes.

After the trials concluded and the defendants had been locked away, Vicki Hutcheson contacted Ron Lax, the Memphis private investigator, several times to report that she was “.

I know I wasn't supportive when you wanted to become a private investigator.

On top of that, Rick was pissed at him, and Zackery Elland Chandler had hired a private investigator.

Being a private Investigator isn't like working for the Civil Guards or Palace Security.

I'm damned if I'm going to be arrested by a cheap Private Investigator from Twelve Seas.

Walls, the private investigator she had been told was working for the victim's family, and again heard of the bitter feelings the mother and grandmother had for the Alvin Police.