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enclosure
[ en-kloh-zher ]
noun
- something that encloses, as a fence or wall.
- something that is enclosed in or along with something else, as a photograph sent in a letter.
- an area, such as a plot of ground or an indoor surface, surrounded by a fence, rope, or other barrier.
- the separation and appropriation of land by means of a fence.
- an act or instance of enclosing.
- the state of being enclosed.
- Roman Catholic Church. the part of a monastery or convent canonically separated or restricted as the living quarters of the religious, which a person may leave only with special permission or gain entrance to by special dispensation.
enclosure
/ ɪˈəʊə /
noun
- the act of enclosing or state of being enclosed
- a region or area enclosed by or as if by a fence
- the act of appropriating land, esp common land, by putting a hedge or other barrier around it
- history such acts as were carried out at various periods in England, esp between the 12th and 14th centuries and finally in the 18th and 19th centuries
- a fence, wall, etc, that serves to enclose
- something, esp a supporting document, enclosed within an envelope or wrapper, esp together with a letter
- a section of a sports ground, racecourse, etc, allotted to certain spectators
Other Word Forms
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Word History and Origins
Origin of enclosure1
Example Sentences
After a previous conflict in Gaza in 2009, a UN survey of the territory found asbestos in debris from older buildings, sheds, temporary building extensions, roofs and the walls of livestock enclosures.
The elephant program has been criticized by animal rights advocates for decades because of its small enclosure size and history of deaths and health challenges among its inhabitants.
The Safari Park captured the herd’s defensive formation on camera as a magnitude 5.2 earthquake rattled the region, sending shock waves through the elephant enclosure and across Southern California.
So this kind of logic of capture, enclosure and commodification is the rationale that binds together all of the world-building of “Sleep Dealer.”
Park authorities have rejected the allegations and say there are now a total of 26 cheetahs, including 17 in the wild and nine others that are kept in enclosures at the moment.
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