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detective agency

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meanings of detectiveand agency


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detective
noun[C]
uk /dɪˈtek.tɪv/ us /dɪˈtek.tɪv/
someone whose job is to discover information about crimes and find out who is responsible ...
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agency
noun
uk /ˈeɪ.dʒən.si/ us /ˈeɪ.dʒən.si/
a business that represents one group of people when dealing with ...
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Examples of detective agency


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I defy anyone—other than a detectiveagency—who is willing to work from now until doomsday, to discover the people behind the company.
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The sale or disclosure of information to a detectiveagency, without a patient's consent, would be a breach of confidence and may be actionable under civil and criminal law.
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With a failing detectiveagency in her possession and no money, her choices are limited.
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He promises to help her get her memory back, but he really only wants her to benefit his detectiveagency.
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Bendrix follows through with hiring a private detectiveagency.
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A pariah like her father, she funneled her time and energy into helping him in his own detectiveagency.
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The two decided that they worked so well together that they would continue to keep the detectiveagency open.
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His defense team hired a private detectiveagency to investigate the housekeeper's past.
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In order to do this, he starts a detectiveagency which specializes in the paranormal.
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Back at the detectiveagency, a resentful tipster calls to tell that the lowlife was at the school.
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It is considered to be the first known detectiveagency.
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His detectiveagency languished, and eventually died out.
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She must prove that she grown up enough to be part of a special supernatural detectiveagency.
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The series revolves around three young girls who work for a detectiveagency who one day receive magical powers from a mysterious boy.
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Baadshah, having been rescued by his friends using a curtain slide, is seen to have booming business back at the detectiveagency.
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The title characters are a hypochondriac former judge who now owns a private detectiveagency and her parolee partner.
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His previous work at the detectiveagency provided him the inspiration for his writings.
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They are from the same detectiveagency investigating the same case.
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She runs her own detectiveagency, which specializes in exposing art frauds and recovering stolen art.
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Left bankrupt when her accountant embezzles all of her money, she is forced to make a living by running the detectiveagency she had previously owned as a tax write-off.
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