Definition of "interloping" [interloping]

• An act of intrusion or encroachment. (noun)
• A term used to describe the act of illegal Indian Trade within the area that the Hudsons Bay Company held a trade monopoly over. This area included entire watershed of Hudson's Bay. (noun)
• Present participle of interlope. (verb)

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• "Undoubtedly, "said Mr. Touris, the Scots adventurer for fortune, set up as merchant-trader in London, making his fortune by" interloping "voyages to India, but now shareholder and part and lot of the East India Company --" undoubtedly the place has possibilities. ""
• "It seemed to me to be a Norman Rockwell version of the football-crazed-giant-school experience, and I was happy to be a small, interloping part of it."
• "Also in the generational mix: a pair of emotionally damaged children, two bitter ex-wives and various interloping lovers."