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Definition: Encroachment |
EncroachmentNoun1. Any entry into an area not previously occupied; "an invasion of tourists"; "an invasion of locusts"; "a viral invasion". 2. Entry to another's property without right or permission. 3. Influencing strongly: "they resented the impingement of American values on European culture". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "encroachment" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references) |
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Finance | The act of intruding gradually and without permission upon the rights, land or other possessions of another. Encroachment is often used to describe the spread of one type of neighborhood into an adjoining but different type of neighborhood. A change made to one property may encroach upon the rights or value of a second property. (references) |
Law | A fixture, such as a wall or fence, which illegally intrudes into or invades on public or private property diminishing the size and value of the invaded property. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. To work coal or mineral beyond the boundary that divides one mine area from another; to work coal from a barrier pillar that has been left as a safety measure. Also called trespass b. The advancement of water, replacing withdrawn oil or gas in areservoir. (references) |
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Synonyms: EncroachmentSynonyms: impact (n), impingement (n), intrusion (n), invasion (n), trespass (n), violation (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Transcursion | Noun: transcursion, transiliency, transgression; trespass; encroachment, infringement; extravagation, transcendence; redundancy. |
Undueness | Usurpation, tort, violation, breach, encroachment, presumption, assumption, seizure; stretch, exaction, imposition, lion's share. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Encroachment |
| English words defined with "encroachment": Accroachment ♦ Beach grass ♦ Encroachingly ♦ Hunkpapa ♦ inroad ♦ Purpresture. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "encroachment": marine transgression ♦ oceanic transgression. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Encroachment on farmland in Fulton County, OH. Credit: USDA. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | This left no room for controversy about the title, nor for encroachment on the right of others; what portion a man carved to himself, was easily seen; and it was useless, as well as dishonest, to carve himself too much, or take more than he needed. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Health | Lower population density, a lesser propensity for peridomestic encroachment and a narrower geographic and ecologic distribution (and perhaps differing virulence) may explain the lack of human disease associated with hantaviruses (or genetic sequences thought to represent additional hantaviruses) from meadow and California voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus and californicus, respectively) and the western harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys megalotis). (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Kyrgyz Republic | The law on the mass media prohibits the dissemination of government and commercial secrets; material advocating war, violence, or intolerance toward ethnic or religious groups; desecration of national norms, ethics, and symbols, such as the national seal, flag, or anthem; pornography; and encroachment on the honor and dignity of a person (libel). (references) |
Economic History | Mali | The overall size of Mali's herds is not expected to reach pre-drought levels in the north of the country, where encroachment of the desert has forced many nomadic herders to abandon pastoral activities and turn instead to farming. (references) |
Human Rights | Malaysia | These observers commented that these developments appeared to indicate that executive encroachment on the judiciary could remain a serious concern. (references) |
Indigenous People | Brazil | FUNAI admits that it does not have the necessary resources to protect indigenous lands from encroachment. (references) |
Panama | The Ngobe also are under threat due to the isolation of their reserves, encroachment by settlers, and generalized poverty. (references) | |
Peru | Indigenous groups assert that such encroachment often can damage the environment and negatively affect the health of the native people. (references) | |
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George Washington | 1789-1797 | The Creeks in particular are covered from encroachment by the imposition of the General Government and that of Georgia. |
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| "Encroachment" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Encroachment" is used about 145 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 145 | 26,217 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
encroachment | 23 |
property encroachment | 6 |
encroachment law | 3 |
encroachment foraminal neural | 2 |
encroachment military | 2 |
encroachment foraminal | 2 |
definition encroachment | 2 |
encroachment fence | 2 |
agreement encroachment | 2 |
encroachment line property | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "encroachment"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shkelje (breaking, crushing, delinquency, impingement, infraction, infringement, invasion, irregularity, lap, obtrusion, offence, outrage, overlap, perambulation, squelcher, stamping, transgression, trespass, violation), cenim (hurt, invasion, violence). (various references) | |
Arabic | تخطى (bestride, encroach, exceed, go beyond, outrun, overpass, overreach, overshoot, overstep, overtake, run over, skip, surpass, transgress, tread over), تجاوز (cap, encroach, exceed, excuse, jut, leapfrog, obtrude, omission, outbalance, outmatch, outrun, outstrip, overreach, override, overrun, overtake, overtaking, pass, passing, project, rise, span, surpass, transcend, transcendence, transgress, trespass), إنتهاك (contravention, desecration, infringement, inroad, invasion, transgression, violation). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | нахлуване (incursion, indraft, indraught, inpouring, invasion, irruption, raid, razzia, rush), навлизане (incursion, penetration), посегателство (aggression, impingement, infringement, inroad, invasion, violation). (various references) | |
Chinese | 侵犯 (Encroach, Encroached, Encroaching), 侵略 (invasion). (various references) | |
Czech | neoprávnìný zásah. (various references) | |
Danish | overgreb, krænkelse. (various references) | |
Dutch | uitbreiding (add-on, annex, contents, database state, extension, extension of the data base, instance, state), inbreuk (offence). (various references) | |
Finnish | valtaaminen. (various references) | |
French | empiètement. (various references) | |
German | eingriff (interference, intervention, invasion, operation, violation). (various references) | |
Greek | καταπάτηση (infringement), παρέμβαση (interference, interruption, intervention, meddling), υποβάθμιση (downgrading), οπισθοδρόμηση (recoil, regression, setback). (various references) | |
Hebrew | "ס'ת 'בול (infringement, trespass), "ס'" (removing, trespassing). (various references) | |
Hungarian | túlkapás (abuse, trespass). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pelanggaran (abridgement, breach, contravention, infringement, offence, violation). (various references) | |
Italian | invasione (descent, invasion, plague). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蚕食 (aggression, invasion), 入冦 (invasion). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | さ"しょく (aggression, invasion, three colours, three meals), にゅう"う (entrance into drift or pit, entry into port, frankincense, incursion, invasion, matriculation, olibanum, paying tribute). (various references) | |
Manx | tarmestey (ban, block, blocking, check, checkmate; stonewaller; discouragement, chip in, cross, cross annoy, debar, foil, frustrate, frustration, interdict, interdiction, interference, proscribe, proscription, taboo, thwart), brishey stiagh (beat in, break in, burgle, burst in, burst open, encroach, gate crashing, intrude, intrusion, stave in). (various references) | |
Norwegian | overgrep (harassment), brudd (fracture). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | encroachmentay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | usurpação (blackmail, inroad, invasion, usurpation), invasão (inroad, invasion). (various references) | |
Romanian | uzurpare (usurpation), abuz (abuse, excess, fraud, intemperance, malfeasence, malversation, misusage, stretch, transgression), încãlcare (contravention, infraction, infringement, inroad, invasion, offence, violation). (various references) | |
Russian | вторжение (inbreak, incursion, inroad, intrusion, invasion, irruption, penetration). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zadiranje (inroad), povreda (harm, injury, trauma, violation, wound). (various references) | |
Spanish | usurpación (inroad, usurpation), invasión (infringement, invasion). (various references) | |
Swedish | intrång (derogation, impingement, incursion, infringement, infringment, inroad, intrusion, invasion, trespass, trespassing), inkräktande (derogatory, inroad, intrusion, intrusive, violation), ingrepp (mesh, operation), övergrepp (aggression, excesses). (various references) | |
Turkish | el uzatma, zarar (average, bad, cost, damage, detriment, disadvantage, disservice, evil, forfeit, harm, havoc, hurt, injury, loss, maleficence, mischief, prejudice, ravage, sacrifice, scathe, wreckage), tecâvüz (aggression, an outrage upon decency, assault, breaking in, desecration, incursion, infraction, infringement, inroad, intrusion, invasion, offence, offense, outrage, rape, trespass, violence), saldırma (attacking, lunge, onrush, onslaught, on-slaught, rush, swoop), geçme (contagion, dissemination, fitting, intervention, lapse, pass, passage, passing, permeation, slip on, splice, tenon, transit, transmigration, whirligig), aşma (crossover, negotiation, overlap, passing over). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вторгнення (depredation, inbreak, incursion, inruption, intrusion, irruption, penetration, rejection), захоплення (admiration, applause, capture, catch, delight, dementia, ecstasy, enthusiasm, grab, gust, hold, interest, mania, occupation, pre emption, rapture), замах (attempt, infringement, inroad). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự xâm phạm cái lấy được bằng xâm lấn, sự xâm lấn. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "encroachment": encroachments. (additional references) | |
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"Encroachment" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accroachment, encoachment, encroacment, encrouchment, enroachment. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "encroachment" (pronounced enkrō"khmunt) |
| 5 | -kh m u n t | attachment, impeachment, detachment, enrichment, entrenchment, parchment, retrenchment. |
| 4 | -m u n t | aggrandizement, agreement, ailment, alignment, allotment, amazement, amendment, amusement, announcement, annulment, antigovernment, apartment, appeasement, appointment, apportionment, argument, armament, arraignment, arrangement, accompaniment, accomplishment, abandonment, abatement, accouterment, achievement, acknowledgement, acknowledgment, adamant, adjournment, adjustment, adornment, advancement, advertisement, advisement, assessment, assignment, assortment, astonishment, atonement, attainment, banishment, basement, battlement, bemusement, bereavement, betterment, bewilderment, blandishment, bombardment, claimant, Clement, commandment, commencement, commitment, compartment, complement, comportment, concealment, condiment, confinement, consignment, containment, contentment, copayment, curtailment, impairment, impediment, implement, impoundment, impoverishment, impressment, imprisonment, improvement, debarment, debasement, deferment, department, deployment, deportment, derailment, determent, detriment, development, diminishment, disagreement, disappointment, disarmament, disbarment, disbursement, discernment, discouragement, disenchantment, disenfranchisement, disengagement, disestablishment, disgruntlement, disillusionment, disinvestment, dismantlement, dismemberment, displacement, divestment, dormant, easement, element, embankment, embarrassment, embayment, embellishment, embezzlement, embodiment, emplacement, employment, empowerment, enactment, encampment, enchantment, encirclement, encouragement, endangerment, endearment, endorsement, endowment, enforcement, engagement, enhancement, enjoyment, enlargement, enlightenment, enlistment, enrollment, enslavement, entanglement, entertainment, enticement, entitlement, entombment, entrapment, environment, equipment, escapement, escarpment, establishment, estrangement, excitement, excrement, experiment, extinguishment, figment, filament, formant, fragment, fulfillment, garment, garnishment, government, harassment, incitement, inclement, increment, indictment, inducement, informant, infotainment, infringement, installment, instrument, integument, internment, intersegment, investment, involvement, judgement, judgment, ligament, maltreatment, management, measurement, micromanagement, misgovernment, misjudgment, mismanagement, misstatement, mistreatment, moment, monument, movement, nongovernment, nonmanagement, nonpayment, nourishment, ointment, ornament, orpiment, outplacement, overpayment, overstatement, parliament, pavement, payment, pigment, placement, postponement, postretirement, predicament, prejudgment, prepayment, presentment, procurement, pronouncement, punishment, puzzlement, readjustment, realignment, reappointment, reapportionment, rearmament, rearrangement, reassessment, reassignment, recruitment, redeployment, redevelopment, reemployment, reenactment, refinement, refreshment, refurbishment, regiment, reimbursement, reinforcement, reinstatement, reinvestment, repayment, replacement, replenishment, requirement, resentment, resettlement, restatement, retirement, rudiment, sacrament, sediment, segment, sentiment, settlement, shipment, statement, supplement, temperament, tenement, testament, tournament, treatment, underdevelopment, underemployment, undergarment, underpayment, understatement, unemployment, vehement, wonderment. |
| 3 | -u n t | agent, ambient, ambivalent, ancient, antecedent, antidepressant, antioxidant, apparent, applicant, ardent, argent, arrant, arrogant, absent, absorbent, abstinent, abundant, accelerant, accident, aberrant, abhorrent, abortifacient, accountant, adherent, adjacent, adjutant, adolescent, afferent, affiant, affluent, ascendant, aspirant, assailant, assistant, astringent, attendant, belligerent, beneficent, benevolent, blatant, brilliant, buoyant, celebrant, clairvoyant, client, coefficient, cogent, cognizant, coherent, coincident, combatant, competent, complacent, complainant, complaisant, compliant, component, concomitant, concurrent, confident, confluent, consequent, consistent, consonant, constant, constituent, consultant, contaminant, contestant, continent, contingent, convalescent, convenient, convent, convergent, conversant, coolant, corespondent, cormorant, correspondent, Courant, covenant, Crescent, crosscurrent, current, ignorant, immanent, immigrant, imminent, impatient, impertinent, important, impotent, imprudent, inadvertent, incandescent, decadent, decedent, decent, declarant, decongestant, defendant, defiant, deficient, defoliant, delinquent, deodorant, dependent, depressant, descendant, descendent, despondent, detergent, determinant, deterrent, deviant, different, diligent, discordant, disinfectant, disobedient, dispersant, dissident, dissonant, distant, divalent, divergent, docent, dominant, ebullient, efferent, effervescent, efficient, effluent, elegant, elephant, eloquent, emergent, emigrant, eminent, entrant, equivalent, errant, esculent, evanescent, evident, excellent, exigent, existent, exorbitant, expectant, expectorant, expedient, exponent, extant, extravagant, exuberant, exultant, Fabricant, fervent, flagrant, flamboyant, flatulent, flippant, fluent, fluorescent, fragrant, fraudulent, frequent, gallant, giant, grandiloquent, grandparent, hesitant, hydrant, incessant, incident, incipient, incoherent, incompetent, inconsistent, incontinent, inconvenient, incumbent, indecent, independent, indifferent, indigent, indignant, indolent, indulgent, inefficient, infant, infrequent, ingredient, inhabitant, inhalant, inherent, innocent, inpatient, insignificant, insistent, insolent, insolvent, instant, insufficient, insurgent, intelligent, intercurrent, interdependent, intermittent, intolerant, intransigent, invariant, iridescent, irrelevant, irreverent, irritant, itinerant, jubilant, latent, leant, lenient, lieutenant, litigant, lubricant, lucent, luminescent, luxuriant, magnificent, malevolent, malignant, merchant, migrant, militant, miscreant, monovalent, mordant, mutant, nascent, negligent, noncombatant, nonexistent, nonresident, nonviolent, nutrient, obedient, observant, obsolescent, occupant, odorant, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, operant, opponent, opulent, outpatient, overconfident, oxidant, pageant, parent, participant, patent, patient, peasant, penchant, pendant, penitent, pennant, percipient, permanent, persistent, pertinent, petulant, pheasant, piquant, pleasant, pliant, poignant, pollutant, potent, preadolescent, precedent, predominant, preeminent, pregnant, prescient, present, prevalent, proficient, prominent, propellant, proponent, protestant, provident, prudent, prurient, pungent, pursuant, quadrant, quiescent, quotient, radiant, rampant, reagent, recalcitrant, recent, recipient, recombinant, recurrent, redundant, refrigerant, Regent, registrant, relevant, reliant, reluctant, reminiscent, remnant, repellent, repentant, repugnant, resident, resilient, resistant, resonant, resplendent, respondent, resultant, resurgent, retardant, reticent, reverent, rodent, ruminant, salient, seafront, sealant, semipermanent, Sequent, sergeant, serpent, servant, significant, silent, solvent, somnolent, stagnant, stimulant, strident, stringent, student, subcontinent, subsequent, subservient, succulent, sufficient, supergiant, superintendent, supplicant, suppressant, surfactant, talent, tangent, tenant, tetravalent, tolerant, torrent, transcendent, transient, translucent, transparent, trenchant, trident, triumphant, truant, truculent, tumescent, turbulent, tyrant, undercurrent, unimportant, unpleasant, unrepentant, urgent, vacant, vagrant, valiant, variant, verdant, vibrant, vigilant, violent, virulent, warrant. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-e-e-h-m-n-n-o-r-t" | |
-3 letters: anchormen, concenter, connecter, contemner, enchanter, nanometer, reconnect. | |
-4 letters: accentor, anchoret, carotene, chaconne, choreman, choremen, chromate, coachmen, cocreate, coherent, comether, concrete, cretonne, earthmen, encroach, enhancer, enthrone, entrance, entrench, menarche, merchant, ornament, ranchmen, reaccent, remanent. | |
-5 letters: accrete, acetone, anemone, another, canteen, caroche, catcher, cementa, centare, centner, chancre, chanter, chantor, cheater, coacher, coenact, coerect, concent, concern. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-e-e-h-m-n-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: encroachments. | |
+4 letters: mechanoreception. | |
+5 letters: mechanoreceptions. | |
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