store detective vs private investigator

store detective and private investigator both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
store detective	Yes	No	No	No
private investigator	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, private investigator is a hypernym of store detective; that is, private investigator is a word with a broader meaning than store detective:

store detective: a private detective employed by a merchant to stop pilferage
private investigator: someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations

Other hypernyms of store detective include operative, PI, private detective, private eye, shamus, sherlock.

store detective (noun)	private investigator (noun)
a private detective employed by a merchant to stop pilferage	someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations

store detective vs private investigator

store detective and private investigator both are nouns.

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