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.
Origin
1905-10
Examples from the web for inside job
Police suspected from the start that it was an inside job.
Reformers are convinced that this gangland shooting was an inside job, carried out by hardliners.
Ground commanders were apparently the targets of the rogue gunmen, suggesting an inside job.
In fact, all of chemistry is a bit of an inside job.
In the ultimate inside job, cancer doctors are now recruiting-and rejiggering-microbes to destroy malignant cells from within.
Someone has broken into his office and disrupted top-secret files, and it reeks of an inside job.
It was considered to be an inside job, and many people even knew who the lookout was.
British Dictionary definitions for inside job
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
Slang definitions & phrases for inside job
inside job
noun phrase
A robbery, stroke of espionage, etc, done by someone or with the aid of someone within the target organization: The cops think the hotel murder is an inside job(1908+)