insidern.

1848 W. Armstrong Stocks 7 Insiders are those by whom and through whom all transactions are made in and about the Exchange.

1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) i. 31 Named outsiders (exquilini) as opposed to the burgesses or insiders (inquilini).

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 June 6/1 Change him from an outsider into an insider (however slight the connection), and the thing is done.

1892 Nation (N.Y.) 22 Dec. 468/3 It was possible for insiders to use its revelations in speculation on the Bourse.

1902 H. L. Wilson Spenders xxx. 355 Shepler's back of all three [stocks]. The insiders are buying up now, slowly and cautiously, so as not to start any boom prematurely.

1913 Q. Rev. July 256 At any rate, as regards the original 10,000 shares bought by Sir Rufus Isaacs, they took part in it as ‘insiders’ exploiting the ignorance of the public.

1923 F. Waldo Down Mackenzie 248 The Outsider cannot know; the Insider never can make clear to him the grip that holds, the urge that stirs and never sleeps.

1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 2 May 2 Estimates concerning the output of Japanese airplane industry vary. Insiders consider it to be from 1,500 to 2,500 planes a year.

1957 Observer 8 Sept. 10/2 They are fools who compare him [sc. Anouilh] with Pinero, a born insider who upheld conformity and bade us compromise with imperfection.

1957 C. Pepler Riches Despised ii. 27 To the outsider in fact all these religions would have seemed more or less alike... Indeed the insiders, the Israelites, found themselves all too easily drawn to the high places of the mountains.

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 May 293/3 At any moment earnest pedantry may break through to reveal a very young man's novel with nothing much to say and not quite enough ‘insider’ knowledge to avoid a ‘gaffe’.

1966 Economist 12 Feb. 642/2 The main thrust of the Act was to apply to smaller US companies the same financial reporting, proxy-solicitation and insider-trading rules that have long been applied to larger US corporations.

1972 Observer 10 Sept. 11/3 The softness of our line compared with that of the US shows up clearly in the area of insider trading. In Britain it is not illegal to use confidential information to make a profit in the stock market.

1973 Times 8 June 1/2 The Stock Exchange has reiterated its view that ‘insider dealing’ in a company's shares should be made a criminal offence. In a memorandum on company law reform presented to the Department of Trade and Industry, it says the police should be empowered to call for the disclosure of true beneficial ownership when they suspect that insider trading has taken place under the cloak of nominee shareholdings.

1846 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 12 Sept. 5/1 The mode adopted to get an ‘insider’ or what may be better understood, the book from an inside coat pocket is as follows.

1896 I. K. Friedman Lucky Number 154 Britch is used to designate the front-pocket; gerve, vest-pocket; insider, inside coat-pocket; [etc.].

1925 H. Leverage Dict. Underworld in Flynn's 7 Feb. 489/2 Insider (a double insider), an inside vest pocket.

1955 D. W. Maurer in Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. No. 24. 115 An insider is the long flat wallet carried inside the breast-pocket.

1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 69 Insiders, one's pockets.

1854 B. F. Taylor January & June 170 ‘No Room For Two!’ was the exclamation of some insider, the other morning.

1892 Harper's Mag. Jan. 257/1 The exhilarating pace, the smooth roads, and the juxtaposition of the insiders tended, in a high degree, to the promotion of enjoyment.