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encroachment

/en-krohch-muhnt/US // ɛnˈkroʊtʃ mənt //

侵占,侵占行为,侵略,侵略行为

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an act or instance of encroaching.
    • : anything taken by encroaching.

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Examples

  • Some of those workers are insulated by a contract that protects them in some ways from encroachment from gig and contract workers.

  • In 2019, the highest court in Bangladesh recognized the rights of all rivers and instituted a plan to address illegal river encroachment.

  • If someone identifies what they really want, achieving it will almost always require some form of restriction, of encroachment on lesser freedoms.

  • Most recently, the company backed AI Dash, which uses machine learning algorithms to analyze satellite images and infer the encroachment of vegetation on National Grid power lines to avoid outages.

  • Arrests and citations for encroachment, a violation meant to address wayward trash bins, not humans, spiked 54 percent from 2016 to 2018, according to police data provided after a public records request.

  • Is this a win for gay rights, or an encroachment on religious liberty?

  • The increasing pressure to veil is a recent trend, and in some places it is an encroachment on local custom.

  • Consistent encroachment is pulling sales that would have taken place on Black Friday earlier in the week.

  • Christian groups have every right to defend themselves against encroachment by the government, and they absolutely should do so.

  • Mothers who are their own nursemaids have to resist the temporary encroachment of the Quarter's business world.

  • The present rate of encroachment amounts, I was told, to nearly twelve feet a year.

  • Treaty of Westphalia mended much of this, and set fair limits to Papist encroachment;—had said Treaty been kept: but how could it?

  • Thus happily did they guard against every encroachment on the rights of the subject.

  • A shady byway of judicial encroachment is thus rather surreptitiously indicated.