interloper
pronunciation
How to pronounce interloper in British English:
UK [ˈɪntələʊpə(r)]
How to pronounce interloper in American English:
US [ˈɪntərloʊpər]
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- Noun:
- someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission
Word Origin
- interloper
- interloper: [16] An interloper is literally someone who ‘runs between’. The word was coined in English, but based on Dutch loper, a derivative of lopen ‘run’ (to which English leap is related). It originally denoted someone who engaged in trade without authorization, and only in the 17th century took on its present-day meaning ‘interfering outsider’.=> leap
- interloper (n.)
- 1590s, enterloper, "unauthorized trader trespassing on privileges of chartered companies," probably a hybrid from inter- "between" + -loper (from landloper "vagabond, adventurer," also, according to Johnson, "a term of reproach used by seamen of those who pass their lives on shore"); perhaps a dialectal form of leap, or from Middle Dutch loper "runner, rover," from lopen "to run," from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan "to leap" (see leap (v.)). General sense of "self-interested intruder" is from 1630s.
Example
- 1. She felt like an interloper in her own family .
- 2. But his regime is widely seen , in the pushtun-dominated south , as a corrupt interloper representing persian-speaking kabulis propped up by white foreigners .
- 3. It has traditionally been viewed as an interloper in the payments industry because of its ability to divert potential transaction revenue away from traditional players like banks and mastercard inc.
- 4. The transplant world initially regarded him as an interloper . But he has now persuaded 58 of the country 's 236 kidney transplant centers , including many of the largest , to feed his database with information about pairs of transplant candidates and their incompatible donors .