Definitions
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- adjective Describing something that
encroaches . - verb Present participle of
encroach .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective gradually intrusive without right or permission
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Examples
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The American Federation of Labor and its affiliated unions, I may say, are not interested in encroaching upon or taking over the functions of management.
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The fragrant wind encroaching from the woods, bringing its sweet odors, swept the smoke sidewise like an inverted curtain.
Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest Pauline Elizabeth 1902
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To him the idea of encroaching upon the ancestral acres of a von
Bucholz and the Detectives Allan Pinkerton 1856
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The idea of AGW could have been demonstrated or denied by using actual temperature measurements from areas that have relatively complete raw data measurements, have few modifiers such as encroaching cities, and all the rest.
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And this is one of the real issues that will face the next papacy, and that is, the kind of encroaching secularism of the West.
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WEISSKOPF: The impact again, is probably on the margins at this point, there -- the Saudis have more important considerations, including the strong Islamic fundamentalism in their own society, and they're more concerned about that than any kind of encroaching FBI investigation.
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It was never adequately answered, and ordinary Muslims were left with an aggrieved feeling that Christians were "encroaching" into "areas that are reserved for Islam."
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"I am just really fed up with government kind of encroaching on everybody's personal rights and their freedoms," said Gail Trembley, a smoker and Topeka resident who's leading a campaign to repeal that city's ordinance.
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"I am just really fed up with government kind of encroaching on everybody's personal rights and their freedoms," said Gail Trembley, a smoker and Topeka resident who's leading a campaign to repeal that city's ordinance.
The Seattle Times 2010
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I anticipate that one reply would be that such a militia would protect state's rights against an "encroaching" federal government.
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