private detective

English

private detective (plural private detectives)

Any agent hired by a private party for the purpose of investigation or evidence gathering.
- 1946, The Big Sleep (motion picture), spoken by Vivian (Lauren Bacall):
  So you're a private detective? I didn't know they existed, except in books, or else they were greasy little men snooping around hotel corridors.

any agent hired by a private party for the purpose of investigation or evidence gathering

Afrikaans: privaatspeurder
Catalan: detectiu privat m, investigador privat m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 私家偵探／私家侦探 (si¹ gaa¹ zing¹ taam³)

Mandarin: 私人偵探／私人侦探 (sīrén zhēntàn)
Czech: soukromý detektiv m, soukromé očko n
Danish: privatdetektiv c
Dutch: privédetective (nl) m
Estonian: eradetektiiv
Finnish: yksityisetsivä (fi)
French: détective privé (fr) m, privé (fr) m
German: Privatdetektiv m, Schnüffler (de) m
Greek: ιδιωτικός ερευνητής m (idiotikós erevnitís)
Hungarian: magánnyomozó (hu), magándetektív (hu)
Japanese: 探偵 (ja) (たんてい, tantei)
Korean: 탐정 (tamjeong)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: privatetterforsker c
Polish: prywatny detektyw m
Portuguese: detetive particular m or f
Romanian: detectiv particular
Russian: ча́стный детекти́в m (částnyj detektív), ча́стный сы́щик m (částnyj sýščik)
Slovene: zasebni detektiv m
Spanish: detective privado (es) m, investigador privado (es) m
Swedish: privatdeckare (sv) c
Turkish: özel dedektif, özel ajan
Ukrainian: приватний детектив m (pryvatnyj detektyv)

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