store detective

noun

A person employed in a shop to detect and prevent shoplifting.

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Meanings

nounstore detective (plural store detectives)

plural store detectives

  1. A person employed in a shop to detect and prevent shoplifting.
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    Behold your future, Cavendish the Younger.[…]On escalators, on trunk roads, in supermarket aisles, the living will overtake you, incessantly. Elegant women will not see you. Store detectives will not see you. Salespeople will not see you, unless they sell stair lifts or fraudulent insurance policies.

    2004, David Mitchell, “The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish”, in Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre (Hodder and Stoughton), →ISBN, pages 180-181
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APA

store detective. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/store%20detective

MLA

“store detective.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/store%20detective. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “store detective,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/store%20detective.

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