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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
n
1: someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information [syn: private detective, PI, private eye, private investigator, operative, shamus, sherlock]
Merriam Webster's
noun Date: 1938 private investigator
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
(private eyes) You can refer to a private detective as a private eye, especially when he or she is a character in a film or story. (INFORMAL) N-COUNT
