store detective

Other forms: store detectives

Definitions of store detective
  1. noun
    a private detective employed by a merchant to stop pilferage
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    type of:
    PI, operative, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus, sherlock
    someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information
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