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発音

• (General American) IPA: /ɪnˈsaɪdɚ/, /ˈɪnsaɪdɚ/
• • Homophone: inciter
• 韻: -aɪdə(ɹ)

名詞

insider (plural insiders)

1. A person who has special knowledge about the inner workings of a group, organization, or institution.

   Antonym: outsider

   Near-synonyms: initiate, old hand, habitué

   • 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:

     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.

2. 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.

派生語

派生した語

• Dutch: insider
• German: Insider
• Japanese: インサイダー (insaidā)
• Swedish: insider

参考

アナグラム

• irenids, neriids, sirenid