interference

Definition

  • noun: involvement in the activities and concerns of other people when your involvement is not wanted
  • noun: the act or process of 'interfering'

Examples

  • He was able to survive the scandal only because he had several clever assistants who 'ran interference' for him.

  • We had to put up with loud noise and constant 'interference' from the neighbors.

  • It was hard to hear the radio program because of all the 'interference'.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) Cobol Engineering. That price on my head, was that dead or alive? Don't remember. Let's see if he starts shooting. Run interference. I'll meet you downstairs in the bar in, say, uh, half an hour? - Back here? - This is the last place they would suspect. All right. Freddy. Freddy Simmonds. (..)
    2010 Inception