private inquiry
noun
Work undertaken by a private detective; usually attributive.
Origin
Mid 19th century.
- subcartilaginous
- subcategorisation
- subcategorise
- subcategorization
- subcategorize
- subcategory
- clootie dumpling
- clop
- clopidogrel
- cloqué
- closable
- close
- close but no cigar
- close by
- close call
- close-caption
- close-coupled
- close-cropped
- closed
- closed book
- closed caption
- closed chain
- closed-circuit television
- closed communion
- closed compound