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DETECTIVE AGENCY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does detective agency mean?
• DETECTIVE AGENCY (noun)
The noun DETECTIVE AGENCY has 1 sense:
1. an agency that makes inquiries for its clients
Familiarity information: DETECTIVE AGENCY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An agency that makes inquiries for its clients
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("detective agency" is a kind of...):
agency (a business or organization that provides a particular service, especially the mediation of transactions between two parties)
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