Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To run between parties and intercept the advantage that one should gain from the other; traffic without a proper license; forestall.
- To obtrude one's self into a business in which one has no right.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To run between parties and intercept without right the advantage that one should gain from the other; to traffic without a proper license; to intrude; to forestall others; to intermeddle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
intrude , meddle, or trespass in others’ affairs.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license
Etymologies
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Examples
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Still less do they care to expose their daughters to mingling with that crowd of questionable females, coming from all parts of the world, and constituting what M. Planchut calls the 'monde interlope,' which assembles every winter at M.nte Carlo and Nice.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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Montausé; but he heard a voice calling in some unknown tongue; some human being had dared to interlope upon his peculiar domain; and the wrathful explorer did only what might have been expected of him: he began to pour forth a torrent of very violent reproof and objurgation, to which the sober English tongue can do scant justice.
Round the World in Seven Days Herbert Strang
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The mullahs, who are not short of assets, even hired an interlope person Fereydun Sahebjam, who was living in France and who introduced himself as a journalist.
Iran Resist 2010
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The aim is not to interlope, but to extend our understanding of how and why people dream.
BBC News - Home 2010
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The mullahs, who are not short of assets, even hired an interlope person Fereydun Sahebjam, who was living in France and who introduced himself as a journalist.
Iran Resist Kaveh Mohseni 2010
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Last year the government of Argentine after years of investigation OF bombing in Argentine BY Iranian government and gave the result of their investigation to interlope.
legitgov 2009
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When Google the word "Interpol issues arrest warrants for 15 Israelis" to search in the computer all you find is "Interpol issues arrest warrants for 5 Iranian leader for bombing in Argentina not 15 Israelis" after reading the article what it said, Iran asking International police if they are right about Israelis committed war crime and if so is that that means interlope can arrest them for war crime?
legitgov 2009
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When Google the word "Interpol issues arrest warrants for 15 Israelis" to search in the computer all you find is "Interpol issues arrest warrants for 5 Iranian leader for bombing in Argentina not 15 Israelis" after reading the article what it said, Iran asking International police if they are right about Israelis committed war crime and if so is that that means interlope can arrest them for war crime?
legitgov 2009
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This reluctance to interlope in the lives of one's neighbors - "a very Iowa attitude," in the words of one local political scientist, derived in part from the state's rural heritage - may help explain how Iowa finds itself in this moment.
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The interlope after studying the result of investigation issued arrest for 5 Iranian leaders.
legitgov 2009
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