Meaning & use
interlope
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To intrude into a situation, place, or business where one has no right or is not welcome; to meddle in others' affairs.
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He was accused of trying to interlope on a trade route that wasn't his.
She felt her sister was interloping on her circle of friends.
A note on using this word
A back-formation from 'interloper,' originally a sixteenth-century term for unauthorized traders who intruded on chartered trading companies.
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