Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. An accepted member of a group.
- n. One who has special knowledge or access to confidential information.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A person who has special knowledge about the inner workings of a group, organization, or institution.
- n. A person who is within an enclosed space.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. an officer of a corporation or others who have access to private information about the corporation's operations, especially information relating to profitability.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who is inside; one who is within the limits of some place, structure, society, organization (as a church), etc.
- n. Hence One who has some special advantage, as in a business enterprise.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. an officer of a corporation or others who have access to private information about the corporation's operations
Etymologies
Examples
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In Sunday's now-famous "60 Minutes" report, based on a book by the Hoover Institution's Peter Schweizer, the term "insider information" is used even more loosely.
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The lawsuit claimed Scammell searched the Internet for SEC regulations and the term "insider trading" before buying the stock.
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The phrase "insider trading" does not appear in the document.
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"His comments were as offensive as you can get," a label insider said.
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"That is what I call insider talk, and that is not Chicago street talk," Dunn said.
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"The band re-signed last year," a label insider says.
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"We went with the wrong single and it sold nothing," a label insider admits.
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We sat on this story for 24 hours to see if industry insiders like Nikki Finke might weigh in, and so far no other industry insider is commenting.
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What makes this guy a political pundit or current Palin insider? martha
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Why else do you think that the source of the leak .. which has to be an insider is never mentioned or pursued?
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