enclosure
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4.4
- noun
- /ɪnˈkloʊʒər/
- Parliament passes thousands of acts of enclosure which allow people to enclose and divide up the common land.
- process of enclosure
- the enclosure movement
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Watch on YouTubeSo 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
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6.8
A cover that surrounds and protects something
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7.0
A complete covering that surrounds something
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9.9
The act of surrounding or including something completely
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8.8
Closing off land so only certain people can use it
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4.5
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
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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.