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Word: Interloper
Speech Type: Noun
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)
ˈɪntəˌləʊpə
a person who becomes involved in a place or situation where they are not wanted or are considered not to belong
Short Definition:person who becomes involved in place or situation where they are not wanted or are considered not to belong
Examples:- 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
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