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interloping

Definitions

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  • noun An act of intrusion or encroachment.
  • noun A term used to describe the act of illegal Indian Trade within the area that the Hudsons Bay Company held a trade monopoly over. This area included entire watershed of Hudson's Bay.
  • verb Present participle of interlope.

Etymologies

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Noun form of the word "interloper" (see etymology for interloper for more)

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Examples

  • Undoubtedly, "said Mr. Touris, the Scots adventurer for fortune, set up as merchant-trader in London, making his fortune by" interloping "voyages to India, but now shareholder and part and lot of the East India Company --" undoubtedly the place has possibilities. "

    Foes Mary Johnston 1903

  • It seemed to me to be a Norman Rockwell version of the football-crazed-giant-school experience, and I was happy to be a small, interloping part of it.

    Dion Nicole: Maybe We Aren't Penn State Dion Nicole 2011

  • It seemed to me to be a Norman Rockwell version of the football-crazed-giant-school experience, and I was happy to be a small, interloping part of it.

    Dion Nicole: Maybe We Aren't Penn State Dion Nicole 2011

  • It seemed to me to be a Norman Rockwell version of the football-crazed-giant-school experience, and I was happy to be a small, interloping part of it.

    Dion Nicole: Maybe We Aren't Penn State Dion Nicole 2011

  • It seemed to me to be a Norman Rockwell version of the football-crazed-giant-school experience, and I was happy to be a small, interloping part of it.

    Dion Nicole: Maybe We Aren't Penn State Dion Nicole 2011

  • It seemed to me to be a Norman Rockwell version of the football-crazed-giant-school experience, and I was happy to be a small, interloping part of it.

    Dion Nicole: Maybe We Aren't Penn State Dion Nicole 2011

  • It seemed to me to be a Norman Rockwell version of the football-crazed-giant-school experience, and I was happy to be a small, interloping part of it.

    Dion Nicole: Maybe We Aren't Penn State Dion Nicole 2011

  • It seemed to me to be a Norman Rockwell version of the football-crazed-giant-school experience, and I was happy to be a small, interloping part of it.

    Dion Nicole: Maybe We Aren't Penn State Dion Nicole 2011

  • It seemed to me to be a Norman Rockwell version of the football-crazed-giant-school experience, and I was happy to be a small, interloping part of it.

    Dion Nicole: Maybe We Aren't Penn State Dion Nicole 2011

  • Also in the generational mix: a pair of emotionally damaged children, two bitter ex-wives and various interloping lovers.

    In Brief: Mysteries 2012

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