🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

侵入者

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shinnyūsha

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Interloper/ˈɪn.təˌləʊ.pər/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"警備員が敷地内の侵入者を発見した。"

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who becomes involved in a place or situation where they are not wanted or are considered not to belong.

    "Uninvited photographers acted as interlopers during the private family ceremony."
  2. 2

    A person who unlawfully intrudes on a trade or commercial monopoly.

    "Historical merchant guilds aggressively prosecuted any interlopers attempting to bypass official tariffs."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived in the late 16th century from the Dutch word 'interlooper', combining the Latin prefix 'inter-' (meaning 'between') with the Dutch 'looper' (meaning 'runner', related to 'leap'). Originally used in a commercial sense to describe traders who interfered in the monopoly privileges of the Levant or East India companies, it eventually evolved to refer generally to any intruder or trespasser.

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