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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"
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
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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