Interloper

Word INTERLOPER
Character 10
Hyphenation in ter lo per
Pronunciations [ˌɪntəˈləʊ̯pə]

Definitions and meanings of "Interloper"

What do we mean by interloper?

One that interferes with the affairs of others, often for selfish reasons; a meddler. noun

One that intrudes in a place, situation, or activity. noun

One that trespasses on a trade monopoly, as by conducting unauthorized trade in an area designated to a chartered company. noun

A ship or other vessel used in such trade. noun

One who trades without license. noun

One who interferes obtrusively or officiously; one who thrusts himself into a station to which he has no claim, or into affairs in which he has no interest. noun

One who interlopes; one who unlawfully intrudes upon a property, a station, or an office; one who interferes wrongfully or officiously. noun

An unlicensed or illegitimate trader. noun

One who interferes, intrudes or gets involved where not welcome, particularly a self-interested intruder. noun

Someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission noun

An unlicensed or illegitimate trader.

One who interferes, intrudes or gets involved where not welcome, particularly a self-interested intruder.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Interloper

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The word "interloper" in example sentences

The Dads get off scott free, because hey they aren’t pregnant, it must be Mom’s fault this interloper is arriving. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Way back in 2000, every single one came from Asimov’s, F&SF or Analog, save for an interloper from the semi-prozine Interzone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is especially the case if you have hard water and the interloper is a car parked in your favorite space along your lawn. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Meanwhile, back in the Hills, Stephanie takes her new boyfriend Cameron out to dinner with Heidi and Spencer, and naturally someone behaves like a petulant baby by calling the interloper "Stephanie's first boyfriend" and bringing up that old Doug song and dance. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There he felt every inch the ragtag interloper he'd been a lifetime ago. ❋ Leigh Sutherland & Peg Greenwood (1997)

His presence in this room under that name was an insult, and he intended to call the interloper to account the very first opportunity he found. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)

He declared, too, that the interloper was the missing Jordan, beyond a doubt, and that he had come there to steal the money he had buried in that same field years before. ❋ Harry Castlemon (1878)

There was not so long since an instance at Christie's, and a second at Sotheby's, where the high quotations were entirely due to the competition of a so-called interloper, who bade, as he thought, on the judgment of the room, and was signally handicapped. ❋ William Carew Hazlitt (1873)

Our plumber has been coming to our house longer than I have, which is twenty-six years, and he seems to think I am some kind of interloper, a Janey-come-lately. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There were a lot of DC Dems who were upset with the "interloper" who wasn't letting them reap what they saw as their just rewards, their due, after driving Nixon from office and putting up with "veto pen" Jerry Ford. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was a good waiter, and he felt that sooner or later fortune would turn the trick for him, and the chance arise whereby he might pay back the debt he owed the "interloper," as he chose to deem Darry. ❋ Frank V. Webster (N/A)

Their captains had orders to take no prisoners, and every "interloper" who fell into their hands was either hanged, like ❋ John Masefield (1922)

He had to meet the slurs of "interloper," and the charge of being a pushing newcomer. ❋ Edgar Lee Masters (1909)

It is a comic thing that the gangs of jobbers consider that they have a prescriptive right to plunder at large, and their air of aggrieved virtue when they are challenged by a person whom they call an "interloper" is among the most droll and humiliating farces that may be seen in life. ❋ James Runciman (1871)

During the last two years, however, there had been enough of discussion about Mary Lawrie to convince Mrs Baggett that, in regard to this "interloper," as Mrs Baggett had once called her, ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)

And that government is a kind of interloper, if not a, you know, criminal gang. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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