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US
/ɛnˈkɫoʊʒɝ, ɪnˈkɫoʊʒɝ/
]
[ UK /ɛnklˈəʊʒɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɛnklˈəʊʒɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a naturally enclosed space
- the act of enclosing something inside something else
- something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter
- a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed for some purpose
How To Use enclosure In A Sentence
- The layout of the enclosures, paddocks, and yards suggests an emphasis on stock-raising.
- The proposed enclosure would stretch from wet sand to dry areas above the tidal zone, but allowed people to walk at the water's edge along the beach.
- All the associated grave goods belonged to the fourth century, the cemetery itself overlying earlier field boundaries and enclosures.
- For her fiftieth birthday Don built Rebecca a chicken tractor - a long wire enclosure on wheels that enables her to graze chickens along the rows of green manure forage.
- The new enclosure is brilliant for us as it allows us to give the gorillas the enrichment they need. The Sun
- Forget the road congestion, it's the traffic jams inside the racecourse enclosures which will occupy the team bringing this magnificent spectacle to York.
- Almost immediately he began setting up his own Botanic Garden, taking over an old stone-walled enclosure, formerly the common or stable yard, next to the kitchen garden.
- The most important part of the interior of the temenos is the group of the three figures which are represented in relief on the inside face of the enclosure wall on the farthest part, opposite the doorway. Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform]
- Have you tried getting near a meerkat enclosure at a zoo these days? Times, Sunday Times
- It has survived enclosure and modernisation and strips have been passed down through generations.