encroach
to advance beyond proper limits
TRANSLATION
encroach = vordringen, auf etwas übergreifen, einschränken encroachment = das Vordringen, der Eingriff --- GOOGLE INDEX encroach/encroachment: approximately 3,700,000 Google hits
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
Turkey's Ambassador to the Council, Daryal Batibay, says the definition of human rights has rightly been extended since 1950 to keep up with social and technological change but if the court tries to ENCROACH on national sovereignty then "we are all lost and the court is lost".
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City councillors agreed this week to authorize an ENCROACHMENT agreement to allow the project to go ahead, having heard that both provincial and federal ministries had no objections to the idea.
(www.canada.com)
(BBC News)
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City councillors agreed this week to authorize an ENCROACHMENT agreement to allow the project to go ahead, having heard that both provincial and federal ministries had no objections to the idea.
(www.canada.com)
Did you
know?
encroach (noun = encroachment)
verb
- to gradually take away someone else's rights, or to take control of someone's time, work
- to gradually cover more and more of an area of land
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Encroachment comes in many different forms. There is physical encroachment, such as when the neighbour's tree grows so large that it encroaches on your property. Governments sometimes encroach on the land of indigenous folk or countries may encroach on the borders to neighbouring countries, causing war.
Encroachment can also happen figuratively, such as when a government encroaches on the rights of its citizens or a company on the rights of an employee for example.
And then there is the special case of pitch encroachment. This describes overly-zealous fans who run onto the football pitch while a game is in progress, either because they want to show their admiration for one of the players or because they want to be on television.
During a match between Burnley and Blackburn Rovers, one such fan ran onto the pitch naked and break-danced. The officials were not amused. Nor was his girlfriend, who got him the ticket through her employer. He pleaded guilty to pitch encroachment and was given a three-year football banning order.
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SYNONYMS
impinge, infringe, intrude, overstep
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Our HR department makes sure that company policies do not encroach on the rights of its employees."
verb
- to gradually take away someone else's rights, or to take control of someone's time, work
- to gradually cover more and more of an area of land
(Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)
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Encroachment comes in many different forms. There is physical encroachment, such as when the neighbour's tree grows so large that it encroaches on your property. Governments sometimes encroach on the land of indigenous folk or countries may encroach on the borders to neighbouring countries, causing war.
Encroachment can also happen figuratively, such as when a government encroaches on the rights of its citizens or a company on the rights of an employee for example.
And then there is the special case of pitch encroachment. This describes overly-zealous fans who run onto the football pitch while a game is in progress, either because they want to show their admiration for one of the players or because they want to be on television.
During a match between Burnley and Blackburn Rovers, one such fan ran onto the pitch naked and break-danced. The officials were not amused. Nor was his girlfriend, who got him the ticket through her employer. He pleaded guilty to pitch encroachment and was given a three-year football banning order.
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SYNONYMS
impinge, infringe, intrude, overstep
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SMUGGLE OWAD into today's conversation
"Our HR department makes sure that company policies do not encroach on the rights of its employees."
