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US
/ɛnˈkɹoʊtʃmənt/
]
[ UK /ɛnkɹˈəʊtʃmənt/ ]
[ UK /ɛnkɹˈəʊtʃmənt/ ]
NOUN
-
influencing strongly
they resented the impingement of American values on European culture - entry to another's property without right or permission
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any entry into an area not previously occupied
an invasion of tourists
an invasion of locusts
How To Use encroachment In A Sentence
- From the Whiskey Rebellion to the Know-Nothings to the reborn Militias of the 1990s, the eastern establishment has always had reason to fear the expression of a certain kind of cussed American individualism that rebels against what it sees as the encroachments of the state. Obama's Culture War
- The developers also plan to prohibit further land encroachment along the banks of the canal.
- In these, as in the Crinoids, the interambulacral plates are absent, and the interambulacral spaces are filled by an encroachment of the ab-oral region upon them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862
- It's a sign of the encroachment of commercialism in medicine.
- Aziz Shaikh, an official from KDMC's anti-encroachment department said, "We have taken action against the construction as per minicipal rules, but Singh wants it to be demolished, which is not possible. Daily News & Analysis
- The results were derived from a 3.5 year observational study of median encroachments.
- His 30-yard free kick flew over the bar but the referee ordered the kick to be retaken for encroachment and moved the ball 10 yards forward.
- This encroachment on media freedom is not in the public interest. Times, Sunday Times
- Many farmers see downzoning as a taking, an encroachment on their economic rights and a diminution of their retirement nest egg.
- Some local residents advocate pre-emptive privatization of degraded communal lands to protect these areas from municipal encroachment.
