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house detective

NOUN
detective for an establishment
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He’s got the look of a house detective.

From Golf Digest Mar. 27, 2020

Another principal figure was the arrested Hilton Hotel house detective, 39-year-old Ed Murphy.

From Slate Jul. 11, 2012

I was asked more than once to leave the Plaza Hotel, ushered out by the house detective.

From New York Times May 28, 2012

The booming state of California, Democratic Traveling Man John Fitzgerald Kennedy discovered last week, is a political hotel where beds are soft and the rates are right, but the manager doubles as house detective.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I'm the house detective here," the other answered, holding his eyes with an inexorable glare.

From The Day of Days An Extravaganza by Brown, Arthur William



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