inside job

1. 1.

   some transgression committed with the assistance of someone trusted by the victim

   “the police decided that the crime was an inside job”

   Broadertransgression

Questions about inside job

What does inside job mean?

inside job means "some transgression committed with the assistance of someone trusted by the victim".

Is inside job a common word?

inside job is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.