insider
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /ɪnˈsaɪdɚ/, /ˈɪnsaɪdɚ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]insider (plural insiders)
- A person who has special knowledge about the inner workings of a group, organization, or institution.
- 1923 July 2, “‘Big Board’ Failures”, in Time:
- Heavy losses were sustained in Simms Petroleum, which took a greater toll from supposed "Wall Street insiders" than from the general public.
- 2007 December 19, Jonathan Clayton, “Profile: Zuma charmed wives and a nation”, in Times of London, UK:
- He is also an astute ANC insider who spent ten years on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela and the other “grandees” of the movement.
- 2018 July 31, Julia Carrie Wong, “What is QAnon? Explaining the bizarre rightwing conspiracy theory”, in The Guardian[1]:
- In a thread called “Calm Before the Storm”, and in subsequent posts, Q established his legend as a government insider with top security clearance who knew the truth about a secret struggle for power involving Donald Trump, the “deep state”, Robert Mueller, the Clintons, pedophile rings, and other stuff.
- 2026 March 18, Christian Wolmar, “Wales sets example with long-term rail strategy”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 43:
- That, as one of my more sceptical industry insiders put it, is because there is a reluctance to commit funds to any of these plans - and we can put the blame firmly on the fact that HS2 is eating up £7bn per year for the whole term of this parliament.
- A person who is within an enclosed space.
- 1849, Herman Melville, chapter 33, in Redburn: His First Voyage. […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
- To the insider, the ceiling is like a small firmament twinkling with astral radiations.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]person who has special knowledge
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person who is within an enclosed space
See also
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[edit]Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from English insider.
Noun
[edit]insider c
- an insider (person with inside information)
- Insidern sitter på insiderinformation
- The insider has inside information
Declension
[edit]| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | insider | insiders |
| definite | insidern | insiderns | |
| plural | indefinite | insiders, insider | insiders |
| definite | insiderna | insidernas |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “insider”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
- “insider”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
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