What does "heist" mean?

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

Heist

Common synonyms include: armed robbery, armed robbery, asportation, assault and robbery, banditry, bank robbery.

//haɪst// name, noun, verb

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Noun

1
A robbery or burglary, especially from an institution such as a bank or museum. countable, uncountable
"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."
2
robbery at gunpoint wordnet
3
A fiction genre in which a heist is central to the plot; a work in such a genre. countable, uncountable
"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."
4
the act of stealing wordnet