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spotter
noun- a spy hired by an employer to observe and report on
- employees’ activities US, 1876
- Not working like hell in school or in a bastard defense plant or shipyard where they had spotters who would turn you in for sleeping on the job or shooting a little crap in one of the storerooms. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 3, 1947
- By women detectives–spotters, we call ’em. — Jim Thompson, A Swell-Looking Babe, p. 2, 1954
- a criminal who finds or identifies a likely victim for robbery UK, 1937
- The information from Leo’s spotter was on the money. — Michael Connelly, Void Moon, p. 117, 2000
- a look out in a drug-selling operation US
- And if you do as good a job there as you did as a spotter, well, the sky is the limit. — New Jack City, 1990
- a trainspotter, a planespotter, a bus-spotter or a similar type of hobbyist US
Spotter’s Guides have been published by Mayflower Books of New York since 1979. - [F]ar from being a one-dimensional hobby that involves merely underlining the numbers in the National Railway Enthusiasts Association’s Spotter’s Companion, there are scores of specialists[.] — Iain Aitch, A Fete Worse Than Death, p. 55, 2003
- “The spotters on Queen’s Buildings at Heathrow are pond life,” said Tony, talking of one of the most popular vantage points for spotters of passenger aircraft. “They’re real spotter stereotypes with dandruff and –” “Lobotomies,” Ray chipped in. — Iain Aitch, A Fete Worse Than Death, p. 75, 2003
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