private detective
私家侦探,私人侦探,私营侦探,私家偵探
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- : a detective who is not a member of an official force but is employed by private parties.
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Rong and the private detective met again, but the project in California fizzled out.
In San Dieguito, union officials hired a private detective to tail a school board member.
In San Dieguito, union officials hired a private detective to follow a school board member and another was forced out.
Even before he finished law school, he had founded a private detective agency and became an expert in the relatively new field of polygraphy, or lie-detector testing, a skill that would help trigger his meteoric rise.
Enter Raymond Schindler, a private detective who, like the mob that rushed the station, wielded a rope of his own.
ROME — What does it take for a Hollywood A-lister to get a private audience with Pope Francis?
The family was taking some private moments for a closing of the coffin in keeping with Chinese ritual.
But while his public profile receded, his private life blossomed.
My nickname was Captain, though I was a private, first class.
The role of private investigators has stirred controversy in the investigation.
Dean Swift was indeed a misanthrope by theory, however he may have made exception to private life.
But if what I told him were true, he was still at a loss how a kingdom could run out of its estate like a private person.
The private chapel, built out from the house on the side next Calne, had not been used for years and years.