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interloper

noun/ˈɪntələʊpə/

C1CEFR level
68/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

A person who becomes involved in a place or situation where they are not welcome or invited.

Some of the operations staff viewed the consulting team as interlopers with little grasp of shop-floor reality.

Similar: intruder, outsider

Topic: Consulting in Business English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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