Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To set up camp or live in a camp.
- intransitive verb To provide quarters for in a camp.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To go into camp; form and occupy a camp; settle in temporary quarters, formed by tents or huts, as an army or a company.
- To form into or fix in a camp; place in temporary quarters.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To form and occupy a camp; to prepare and settle in temporary habitations, as tents or huts; to halt on a march, pitch tents, or form huts, and remain for the night or for a longer time, as an army or a company traveling.
- transitive verb To form into a camp; to place in a temporary habitation, or quarters.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To build and/or inhabit a
camp or temporary shelter.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb live in or as if in a tent
Etymologies
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Examples
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The state Supreme Court's decision, endorsing the right of Occupiers to return to Zuccotti Park, but not to encamp there, seems positively Solomonic.
David Tereshchuk: Bloomberg's Media Plan for Occupy Eviction -- and His Failure David Tereshchuk 2011
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The state Supreme Court's decision, endorsing the right of Occupiers to return to Zuccotti Park, but not to encamp there, seems positively Solomonic.
David Tereshchuk: Bloomberg's Media Plan for Occupy Eviction -- and His Failure David Tereshchuk 2011
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By this I do not mean that people should be encouraged to encamp in public spaces in all neighborhoods around our various cities.
Morgan Fitzgibbons: #OccupyYourNeighborhood Morgan Fitzgibbons 2011
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By this I do not mean that people should be encouraged to encamp in public spaces in all neighborhoods around our various cities.
Morgan Fitzgibbons: #OccupyYourNeighborhood Morgan Fitzgibbons 2011
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By this I do not mean that people should be encouraged to encamp in public spaces in all neighborhoods around our various cities.
Morgan Fitzgibbons: #OccupyYourNeighborhood Morgan Fitzgibbons 2011
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By this I do not mean that people should be encouraged to encamp in public spaces in all neighborhoods around our various cities.
Morgan Fitzgibbons: #OccupyYourNeighborhood Morgan Fitzgibbons 2011
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By this I do not mean that people should be encouraged to encamp in public spaces in all neighborhoods around our various cities.
Morgan Fitzgibbons: #OccupyYourNeighborhood Morgan Fitzgibbons 2011
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In a seamless division of labor, the mothers would traipse up and down the stairs and in and out of elevators with the children, while the dads would encamp in the living room sampling single-malt scotch.
Suburban Tricks, Urban Treats Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010
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By this I do not mean that people should be encouraged to encamp in public spaces in all neighborhoods around our various cities.
Morgan Fitzgibbons: #OccupyYourNeighborhood Morgan Fitzgibbons 2011
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By this I do not mean that people should be encouraged to encamp in public spaces in all neighborhoods around our various cities.
Morgan Fitzgibbons: #OccupyYourNeighborhood Morgan Fitzgibbons 2011
hernesheir commented on the word encamp
"Engine is completely broken down". --US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906.
January 22, 2013