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a person who interferes or meddles in the affairs of others: He was an athiest who felt like an interloper in this religious gathering.
2.
a person who intrudes into a region, field, or trade without a proper license.
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Interloper
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interloper
c.1590, "unauthorized trader trespassing on privileges of chartered companies," probably from inter- "between" + -loper, from landloper "vagabond, adventurer" (also "a term of reproach used by seamen of those who pass their lives on shore" [Johnson]), from M.Du. loper "runner, rover," from lopen "to
EXPAND run." General sense of "self-interested intruder" is from 1632.
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