house detective
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A person employed by a privately owned establishment, such as a hotel or large retail store, with the job of preventing wrongdoing and apprehending violators of laws or other regulations.
Example Sentences
- "I went to Cloran, the house detective at the hotel here in New York where Deemer was murdered."
- "I am usually uncomfortable in such five-star, five-diamond places. . . . I'm afraid I'll break something. Or be found out, collared by the house detective as an interloper unworthy of the surroundings."