| 单词 | encroach |
| 释义 | encroach verb[I] us/ɪnˈkroʊtʃ/to takecontrolorpossessionof something in agradualway and often without beingnoticed: Farmers encroached onforestlandtogrowcrops. Thesedevicesare encroaching on people’sprivacy. encroachmentnoun[C/U]us/ɪnˈkroʊtʃ·mənt/ [C]Human encroachmentthreatensthebirds’nestingsites. Examplesofencroachencroach They have been encroaching upon the field of municipal enterprise all the time. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 As the state encroaches gradually into advocacy in criminal cases, where will the judges come from? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I am sure that education authorities will be anxious to avoid encroaching on playing space, if they possibly can. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The towns are encroaching upon agriculture to the extent of anything up to 20,000 acres a year. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I will try to avoid, as far as possible, any matter that encroaches on foreign affairs. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We find that the trawlers are continually encroaching upon the existing limits of trawling. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps a playing field which existed in that particular area is encroached upon. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The whole time we shall be encroaching on the countryside. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I cannot summarise either one of them adequately without encroaching unacceptably on the business of the day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I think they ought to be warned as to how these powers are being encroached on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Another factor that must be mentioned is that we are faced with encroaching centralisation in the financial markets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 I said that sprawl, defined not by me, but by the architects of the green belt, was the urban area encroaching into the surrounding countryside. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We should have found that the map was encroaching. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Too often in the past civil liberty has been seriously encroached upon by sedition law, by a rather rigid interpretation of various restrictive measures. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 More and more is the law encroaching upon the rights and freedoms of the individual subject. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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