verb
- to interfere in someone else’s affairs without permission or right
- to trade illegally or without proper authorization in a market controlled by others
Usage: formal
Usage: historical; commerce
Examples
- The neighboring country accused them of interloping in their domestic politics.
- She felt he was interloping in her personal business.
- Foreign merchants were forbidden to interlope in the colony’s trade.
- The company was charged with interloping in the regulated market.
- He warned others not to interlope in the negotiations.
- The treaty prohibited nations from interloping in each other’s commerce.