insider

English

Etymology

From inside +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsaɪdɚ/, /ˈɪnsaɪdɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

  • Homophone: inciter
• Rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)

Noun

insider (plural insiders)

1. 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.

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.

Derived terms

• insider baseball
• insider dealing
• insider trade
• insider trading

 

Descendants

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

Translations

person who has special knowledge

• Belarusian: інса́йдэр m (insájder)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 內部的人／内部的人 (nèibù de rén)

• Dutch: insider (nl) m, ingewijde (nl) m or f
• Finnish: sisäpiiriläinen (fi)
• French: initié (fr) m
• German: Insider (de) m; Eingeweihter (de) m, Eingeweihte (de) f
• Hungarian: bennfentes (hu), beavatott (hu), belsős
• Indonesian: orang dalam (id)
• Italian: iniziato (it) m, basista (it) m, addetto ai lavori
• Japanese: インサイダー (ja) (insaidā), 内部の人 (naibu no hito)
• Korean: 내부자(內部者) (naebuja), 인사이더 (ko) (insaideo)
• Russian: инса́йдер (ru) m (insájdɛr), свой челове́к m (svoj čelovék)
• Spanish: insider m
• Swedish: insider (sv) c
• Ukrainian: інса́йдер m (insájder)

person who is within an enclosed space

• Finnish: sisällä oleva
• Hungarian: benn/bent ülő
• Italian: internato (it) m

Anagrams

• irenids, neriids, sirenid

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English insider.

Noun

insider c

1. an insider (person with inside information)

   Insidern sitter på insiderinformation

   The insider has inside information

Declension

Declension of insider

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	insider	insiders
	definite	insidern	insiderns
plural	indefinite	insiders, insider	insiders
	definite	insiderna	insidernas

Derived terms

• insideraffär
• insiderbrott
• insiderinformation

References

• insider in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• insider in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)