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Definition of interloper in English: interlopernoun ˈɪntələʊpə A person who becomes involved in a place or situation where they are not wanted or are considered not to belong. Japanese consumers have in the past been unreceptive to foreign interlopers in the cell phone market to her I was always an outsider, an interloper Example sentencesExamples - This clannishness tends to make interlopers like Swingley, who didn't start racing until he was 36, all the more conspicuous.
- The intimacy born of crisis does not welcome interlopers.
- That I am a stranger, an interloper, who does not belong in this amazing, fantastical world.
- They can be overheard mocking the previous two groups of interlopers.
- This time last year I seemed at best a guest and at worst an interloper in a foreign space.
- Among the small knot of people waiting for it, I was the only outsider; an interloper at a closed get-together.
- But it also stoked public fear of an invisible horde of foreign interlopers.
- Or, to put it another way, he was the gate-crasher, the interloper, the thief who stole the thunder.
- During a lull, the men reminisce about the times they've defied intrusive government inspectors and other interlopers.
- We fight this quarrel out to the death, you and I and our foresters, with no cursed interlopers to come between us.
- How do you like to deal with wireless interlopers?
- According to witnesses, the interlopers wreaked havoc at the packed discussion, interrupted, attacked and screamed like banshees.
- We are dreamers, idealists, romantics - interlopers, charlatans, scoundrels.
- Two of the interlopers eventually move off, but the third, a middle-aged woman with dyed-blonde hair, sits down to wait it out.
- They are surprised into open-mouthed silence at suddenly finding the brazen interloper trespassing within their domestic domain.
- But then a voice wakes me up and I am an interloper again; a stranger in a strange land.
- Unlike scribes, persons who were involved in printing were crude and untutored - frequently German interlopers taking work from Italian scribes.
- But we began to enjoy being interlopers in this other dimension.
- But when Independence came, some Africans looked on the Asians as interlopers, foreigners depriving the locals of jobs and economic opportunity.
- A strong sense of clanship pervaded these villages, making men from other clans feel like interlopers.
Synonyms intruder, encroacher, trespasser, invader, infiltrator, unwanted person, unwanted visitor, uninvited guest outsider, stranger, immigrant, foreigner, alien, newcomer informal gatecrasher
Derivatives verb ˌɪntəˈləʊp [no object]often as adjective interlopingBecome involved in a place or situation where one is not wanted or is considered not to belong. the company's position was undermined by interloping English traders Example sentencesExamples - an interloping male will often try to kill the resident cubs
- impostors have tried to interlope on the action
- ‘It's someone who interlopes,’ Bebbens snapped.
Origin Late 16th century (denoting an unauthorized trader trespassing on the rights of a trade monopoly): from inter- 'amid' + -loper as in archaic landloper 'vagabond' (from Middle Dutch landlooper). An interloper was originally an unauthorized trader trespassing on the rights of a trade monopoly. The word was coined in the late 16th century, and is truly a hybrid. The first element derives from Latin inter ‘between, among’, while the second is extracted from landloper, an old word for a vagabond or tramp taken from Dutch.
Definition of interloper in US English: interlopernoun A person who becomes involved in a place or situation where they are not wanted or are considered not to belong. Japanese consumers have in the past been unreceptive to foreign interlopers in the cell phone market to her I was always an outsider, an interloper Example sentencesExamples - Unlike scribes, persons who were involved in printing were crude and untutored - frequently German interlopers taking work from Italian scribes.
- That I am a stranger, an interloper, who does not belong in this amazing, fantastical world.
- According to witnesses, the interlopers wreaked havoc at the packed discussion, interrupted, attacked and screamed like banshees.
- But it also stoked public fear of an invisible horde of foreign interlopers.
- Or, to put it another way, he was the gate-crasher, the interloper, the thief who stole the thunder.
- But when Independence came, some Africans looked on the Asians as interlopers, foreigners depriving the locals of jobs and economic opportunity.
- This clannishness tends to make interlopers like Swingley, who didn't start racing until he was 36, all the more conspicuous.
- A strong sense of clanship pervaded these villages, making men from other clans feel like interlopers.
- Among the small knot of people waiting for it, I was the only outsider; an interloper at a closed get-together.
- We fight this quarrel out to the death, you and I and our foresters, with no cursed interlopers to come between us.
- How do you like to deal with wireless interlopers?
- They can be overheard mocking the previous two groups of interlopers.
- During a lull, the men reminisce about the times they've defied intrusive government inspectors and other interlopers.
- The intimacy born of crisis does not welcome interlopers.
- This time last year I seemed at best a guest and at worst an interloper in a foreign space.
- Two of the interlopers eventually move off, but the third, a middle-aged woman with dyed-blonde hair, sits down to wait it out.
- But then a voice wakes me up and I am an interloper again; a stranger in a strange land.
- We are dreamers, idealists, romantics - interlopers, charlatans, scoundrels.
- But we began to enjoy being interlopers in this other dimension.
- They are surprised into open-mouthed silence at suddenly finding the brazen interloper trespassing within their domestic domain.
Synonyms intruder, encroacher, trespasser, invader, infiltrator, unwanted person, unwanted visitor, uninvited guest
Origin Late 16th century (denoting an unauthorized trader trespassing on the rights of a trade monopoly): from inter- ‘amid’ + -loper as in archaic landloper ‘vagabond’ (from Middle Dutch landlooper). |