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inside job

noun

  1. a crime committed by or in collusion with a person or persons closely associated with the victim:

    The robbery seemed an inside job, because there was no evidence of forced entry.



inside job

noun

  1. informal.
    a crime committed with the assistance of someone associated with the victim, such as a person employed on the premises burgled
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of inside job1

First recorded in 1905–10
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Example Sentences

What is not worthy of contemplating, though, is the notion that we should have never invaded Afghanistan because 9-11 was an inside job.

But privately, it is listening to other theories, including those about an inside job.

Gravel has stated that the attack on the World Trade Center was likely “an inside job.”

Dr. Mujahid Kamran, with a Ph.D in Physics, claimed that 9/11 was an inside job and Al-Qaeda was a CIA asset.

You might remember Hubbard from the beating he took in the Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job.

Documentary lovers may recall Hubbard from his cameo in the 2010 film Inside Job.

The more I have thought about it, the more inclined I am to believe that Sturtevant is right and that it is an inside job.

“Inside job,” observed Scofield, briefly, his eyes on his work.

He intimated that just so I stopped short of committing suicide as an inside job all would be fine and dandy.

No use, the operative interrupted; this was no inside job, Chief.

From surface indications the loss had the appearance of a theft—an "inside job."

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