inside job

English

Etymology

First attested in 1908. See cite below.

Pronunciation

• Audio (General Australian):

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Noun

inside job (plural inside jobs)

1. (idiomatic, criminology) A crime or other illicit action committed by or with the assistance of someone either having a relationship with a victim or entrusted with access to the victim's affairs and premises.

   Antonym: outside job

   • 1908, O. Henry, The Complete Works of O. Henry [pseud.].: The gentle grafter, page 142:

     ... while the police are calling it an inside job just because the old lady's nephew teaches a Bible class.

   • 1921, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter 10, in Alias The Lone Wolf:

     It seems to me it must have been what the police at home call "an inside job"; because whoever it was apparently knew the combination of the safe.

   • 2017 September 23, “From north Wales to Norfolk, distraught beekeepers ask: who’s stealing our hives?”, in The Observer‎^[1]:

     In Britain, where the British BeeKeepers Association (BBKA) has been urging members to microchip their hives for some time, the continuing mystery and the belief that the crimes are inside jobs are taking their toll.

Translations

Translations

• Arabic: سوء استغلال الوظيفَة
• Chinese: 幕後黑手
• Finnish: sisäpiirin keikka, sisäpiirin juttu; sisäpiiri-isku (attack)
• Polish: robota wewnętrzna f, inside job m (chiefly in conspiracy theories)

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English inside job.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.sajt ˈd͡ʐɔp/
• Syllabification: [please specify syllabification manually]

Noun

inside job m inan

1. (chiefly in conspiracy theories) inside job

   Synonym: robota wewnętrzna

Declension

Declension of inside job

	singular	plural
nominative	inside job	inside joby
genitive	inside joba	inside jobów
dative	inside jobowi	inside jobom
accusative	inside job	inside joby
instrumental	inside jobem	inside jobami
locative	inside jobie	inside jobach
vocative	inside jobie	inside joby

Further reading

• inside job in Polish dictionaries at PWN