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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An accepted member of a group.
  • noun One who has special knowledge or access to confidential information.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is inside; one who is within the limits of some place, structure, society, organization (as a church), etc.
  • noun Hence One who has some special advantage, as in a business enterprise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun an officer of a corporation or others who have access to private information about the corporation's operations, especially information relating to profitability.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A person who has special knowledge about the inner workings of a group, organization, or institution.
  • noun A person who is within an enclosed space.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an officer of a corporation or others who have access to private information about the corporation's operations

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inside +‎ -er

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