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(euphemistic) A covert assassination performed by government operatives. / (figuratively) A vicious attack (on someone's reputation, ideals etc.); a hatchet job.

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wet job

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wet job

Noun

euphemistic figuratively

Japanese Meaning

政府の工作員が秘密裏に実行する暗殺行為（婉曲表現） / 比喩的に、誰かの評判や理念などに対して行われる激しい中傷や攻撃

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The dossier suggested the agency had approved a wet job to eliminate the traitor, but no official record exists.

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その機密報告書は、裏切り者を排除するために政府の工作員が行う秘密の暗殺が機関によって承認されていたことを示唆していたが、公式な記録は存在しない。

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(euphemistic) A covert assassination performed by government operatives.

Like the Navy SEALs (who often work in conjunction with the Delta Force), Delta Force can go anywhere, anytime; they just leave the wet jobs to SEAL Team 6-the navy's version of Delta Force.

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(figuratively) A vicious attack (on someone's reputation, ideals etc.); a hatchet job.

The following year – the year of lawyering dangerously, at least at the LRB – saw Hitchens’s wet job on Henry Kissinger (22 October 1992). As he does with many of his subjects, he walked straight up to this one and dropped the guillotine, likening the book under review – an authorised biography – to ‘the profile of a serial murderer’.

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