English Dictionary

heist

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈhaɪst/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum. / (uncountable) A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot.

日本語の意味

銀行や博物館などの施設から行われる強盗・窃盗 / 強盗を中心としたプロットが展開されるフィクションのジャンル

The crew planned the heist for months before striking at the museum.

その仲間たちは何か月もかけて強盗計画を練り、美術館を襲撃した。

意味（1）

A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum.

The audacious hijacking in Paris of a van carrying the baggage of a Saudi prince to his private jet is obviously an embarrassment to the French capital, whose ultra-high-end boutiques have suffered a spate of heists in recent months.

意味（2）

(uncountable) A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot.

It is a conventional heist play in which the drama is created less through the characters' actions than through the fact of one of them having a gun.

heists （ plural ）