enclosure
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4.4
- noun
- /ɪnˈkloʊʒər/
:
cercamiento
- Parliament passes thousands of acts of enclosure which allow people to enclose and divide up the common land.
- process of enclosure
- the enclosure movement
So this room became a room by virtue of the enclosure.
- So this room became a room by virtue of the enclosure.
- He's invented the term Arcadianism in a park which was in made as a result of the enclosure of the Commons land.
Examples
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Barry gives the enclosure movement as a case of capitalists getting rich by taking from others.
Academic text (1990) -
Let us set out briefly and roughly how the enclosure movement transpired.
Academic text (1990) -
We set the wombats up in enclosures in order to monitor their food intake.
Academic text (1995) -
Animals in the wild are as confined by territorial boundaries as zoo animals are by their enclosures.
Academic text (1992) -
First, in places like England, enclosures drove self-sufficient peasants from communal land into the cities to work in factories.
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Between 1760 and the 1770s, Parliament passed more than 900 acts of enclosure; between 1793 and 1815, another 2,000.
Academic text (1995) -
Clare's poetry railing against the enclosure of the commons and the criminalization of common rights commences as he marks the molehills.
Academic text (2017) -
The children played safely inside the fenced enclosure at the zoo.
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During the presentation, she showed a new enclosure design for the wildlife reserve.
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The dog was kept in a large enclosure to ensure it could not escape.
Synonyms
2
7.0
A complete covering that surrounds something
2
6.8
A cover that surrounds and protects something
1
9.9
The act of surrounding or including something completely
Closing off land so only certain people can use it
Putting something inside or around another thing to protect it
Putting something in a case or cover to protect it
A place or group that is cut off and surrounded by a different area
Antonyms
Compounds
How Closed
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Morphology
Etymology
Enclosure comes from en- ('in') and close ('to shut'), so it originally meant the action of 'shutting in'. That's why enclosure can mean the act of surrounding or closing something off, like putting a fence or barrier around a place.