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# encroachment

«encroachment» in Mova's school dictionary: **Slowly going into a place, time or right that belongs to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (an encroachment, encroachments; encroachment, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Slowly going into a place, time or right that belongs to someone else, a little at a time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encroachment/#m1)

2) (law) Building or using land beyond your boundary onto someone else's land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encroachment/#m2)

3) (nature) The sea, a desert or towns slowly spreading over land. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encroachment/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In geography, coastal erosion and desert encroachment take land; in science, towns encroach on animals' habitats; in law and citizenship, encroachment on rights; in American football, a foul called encroachment; phrases: «encroachment on», «the encroachment of the sea».

### examples

- The encroachment of the sea is eating away the cliffs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encroachment/#x1)
- Towns' encroachment on forests leaves animals with less space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encroachment/#x2)
- The neighbour's new fence was an encroachment on our garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encroachment/#x3)
- Desert encroachment makes farming harder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encroachment/#x4)
- People protested against the encroachment on their rights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encroachment/#x5)
- Rising water caused the encroachment of salt into farmland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encroachment/#x6)

### note

Verb: encroach («encroach on»). Pronounced en-KROHCH-ment. Formal word; simpler: creeping in, taking over.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «encroachment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/encroachment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.