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单词 heist
释义
heist
(hst )
Word forms: heists
countable noun [oft noun NOUN]
A heist is a robbery, especially one in which money, jewellery, or art is stolen. [journalism]
She needs him to take part in a risky heist.
Collocations:
art heist
And the thieves behind the biggest art heist in years are believed to have been tipped off.
The Sun
An intriguing new lead in the world's largest unsolved art heist.
Times, Sunday Times
The film tells the story of a self-made millionaire, an art professor and a banker, who come together to undertake an audacious art heist.
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He had travelled the world using cash from various art heists that he had pulled off.
The Sun
Many art heists are clearly the work of amateurs, but some plainly involve planning, discernment and even critical judgment.
Times, Sunday Times
bank heist
It concerns two detectives who attempt to crack a complex bank heist.
The Sun (2010)
They couldn't make money from a bank heist.
The Sun (2010)
FOUR men were in court yesterday accused of plotting a hi-tech bank heist.
The Sun (2013)
It's a classic trick used in bank heist movies - put a still image in front of a security camera while they crack a safe.
The Sun (2009)
heist film
It starts off promisingly as a high-energy heist film, fuelled by a techno soundtrack.
Times, Sunday Times
It combines historical footage with re-enactment and has the spirit of a heist film.
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Heist films, we've taken to calling them.
Times, Sunday Times
heist movie
What followed resembled the plot of a Hollywood heist movie.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It feels like a cross between the documentary Inside Job and a heist movie.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Inside Man is a rare pleasure; a heist movie that relies on its wits rather than showy pyrotechnics.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
jewellery heist
We know this because grown men used it recently to carry out a jewellery heist.
The Sun
I thought he meant robbing a bank, or a jewellery heist.
Times, Sunday Times
A prestigious diamond fashion show goes wrong and, inadvertently, they become embroiled in a jewellery heist.
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The theft was dubbed 'one of the biggest jewellery heists in the past quartercentury'.
Times, Sunday Times
plan a heist
They plan a heist while passing themselves off as a string quintet.
Times, Sunday Times
Three old pals plan a heist when their pension pots fall foul of corporate corruption.
The Sun
It's set in a junk shop, where three desperate men are planning a heist.
Times, Sunday Times
Police believe the ringleaders spent up to three years planning the heist to finance a luxury retirement — but they now face a 'death sentence' behind bars.
The Sun
Fortunately, a quick explanation exonerated me of planning a heist.
Times, Sunday Times
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