Definitions for private investigator
pri·vate inves·ti·ga·tor

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. private detective, PI, private eye, private investigator, operative, shamus, sherlocknoun

   someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information

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1. private investigatornoun

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

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1. Private investigator

   A private investigator (often abbreviated to PI and informally called a private eye), a private detective, or inquiry agent is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services. Private investigators often work for attorneys in civil and criminal cases.

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1. private investigator

   A private investigator is a professional hired by individuals or groups to carry out investigative and surveillance work, often involving gathering information, uncovering facts, tracing missing persons, conducting background checks, or investigating legal, financial, or personal matters. They must operate within legal boundaries and are typically required to be licensed, depending on their jurisdiction.

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1. Private investigator

   A private investigator, a private detective or inquiry agent, is a person who can be hired by individuals or groups to undertake investigatory law services. Private detectives/investigators often work for attorneys in civil cases. A handful of very skilled private detectives/investigators work with defense attorneys on capital punishment and criminal defense cases. Many work for insurance companies to investigate suspicious claims. Before the advent of no-fault divorce, many private investigators were hired to search out evidence of adultery or other conduct within marriage to establish grounds for a divorce. Despite the lack of legal necessity for such evidence in many jurisdictions, according to press reports collecting evidence of adultery or other "bad behaviour" by spouses and partners is still one of the most profitable activities investigators undertake, as the stakes being fought over now are child custody, alimony, or marital property disputes. Private investigators can also be used to perform due diligence for an investor who may be considering investing money with an investment group, fund manager or other high-risk business or investment venture. This could serve to help the prospective investor avoid being the victim of a fraud or Ponzi scheme. By hiring a licensed and experienced investigator, they could unearth information that the investment is risky and or that the investor has suspicious red flags in his or her background. This is called investigative due diligence, and is becoming much more prevalent in the 21st century with the public reports of large-scale Ponzi schemes and fraudulent investment vehicles such as Madoff, Stanford, Petters, Rothstein and the hundreds of others reported by the SEC and other law-enforcement agencies.

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How to pronounce private investigator?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of private investigator in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of private investigator in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of private investigator in a Sentence

1. Sam Brower:

   I'm 100% satisfied as a private investigator that it exists.

2. Nancy Howell:

   I basically had to turn into a private investigator to find my mother.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=private investigator
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Private_Investigator
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Investigator
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=private investigator