Definition of Inside job

1. Noun. Some transgression committed with the assistance of someone trusted by the victim. "The police decided that the crime was an inside job"

Generic synonyms: Evildoing, Transgression

Definition of Inside job

1. Noun. (idiomatic) A crime or other illicit action committed by or with the help of someone either employed by the victim or entrusted with access to the victim's affairs and premises. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Inside Job

inside-the-parker
inside address
inside addresses
inside back
inside baseball
inside caliper
inside centre
inside clinch
inside dealing
inside diameter
inside edge
inside edged
inside edges
inside edging
inside information
inside job (current term)
inside jobs
inside joke
inside jokes
inside lag
inside loop
inside out
inside out patch
inside out vesicle
inside pocket
inside straight draw
inside straight draws
inside track
inside trading
insidely

Literary usage of Inside job

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Recollections of a New York Chief of Police by George Washington Walling (1887)
"Some of the able detectives engaged on the case insisted that it was what is known as an " inside job," without the slightest reference to the possibility ..."

2. Choosing Employees by Mental and Physical Tests by William Fretz Kemble (1917)
"Pleasant job—Work with tools, inside job, outside job, machine job, desk job, bench, inside selling, outside selling, superintending, inspecting, sewing, ..."

3. Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918 by Massachusetts Constitutional Convention (1919)
"... and I found a good big-hearted man who had an inside job in one of the hotels in Boston who said he would employ him. This man put him to work, ..."

4. The Illustrated Magazine of Art (1853)
"... to un anchor inside. Job Potts is about to comfort the inner man, and don't bo long, considering he's waiting." Edward followed the other's ..."

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