Meaning of interloper in English

interloper

disapproving

/ˈɪn.təˌləʊ.pər/ us

/ˈɪn.t̬ɚˌloʊ.pɚ/

someone who becomes involved in an activity or a social group without being asked, or enters a place without permission:

Security did not prevent an interloper from getting onto the stage at the opening ceremony.

Synonym

intruder

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(Definition of interloper from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

interloper | American Dictionary

interloper

noun [ C ]

/ˈɪn·tərˌloʊ·pər/

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someone who becomes involved in an activity or a social group without being asked or wanted, or who enters a place without being allowed:

We felt like interlopers when we tried to join the game.

(Definition of interloper from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of interloper

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He then designates some as deserving and others as imposters and interlopers.

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Not only did these interlopers represent interests often opposed to those of the settlers, but they contradicted the social relations of power on the ground.

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The incongruent question follows the disruption in which an interloper stuffed toy pushes the card to rest under the second picture.

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The door of public services accessible to all was not slammed shut on interlopers and thieves.

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His dependent status makes him an interloper but not yet a threat.

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Information disseminated by interlopers, working on local suspicions, bred misconceptions-a catalyst that accelerated and intensified the collision of civilizations.

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The patent system protects the discoveries of a company so that an interloper might not jump in unfairly to take advantage.

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The tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon: do experimentally presented interlopers have any effect?

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However, he suggests that attitudes remained the same mixture of paternal provision and regulation of the ' settled ' poor, with harsh exclusion and prosecution of interlopers.

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It is also a means of excluding interlopers.

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Given this character of entrepreneurship, one should pay particular attention to institutional boundaries themselves, especially their permeability to outsiders, or entrepreneurial interlopers.

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It is easy enough to see that an incumbent alliance has a first-mover advantage when it lobbies the government to exclude interlopers who are in a position to undercut.

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Indeed, as the female war-text also makes clear, witnessing the business of war, like the unwritability trope, is a privilege that men jealously guard against female interlopers.

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Manso then turned to those interlopers and ordered them to vacate the premises.

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Such interlopers could not be reliably identified, let alone accurately placed within the social hierarchy, because there seemed little way to prevent them from disseminating false stories about themselves.

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