insider information

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   important information about the plans or condition of a corporation that has not been released to the public; use for personal profit is illegal

   Broaderinformation

Questions about insider information

What does insider information mean?

insider information means "important information about the plans or condition of a corporation that has not been released to the public; use for personal profit is illegal".

Is insider information a common word?

insider information is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.