Usually means: Intrusion on property or rights.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. encroachment: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. encroachment: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. encroachment: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. encroachment: Collins English Dictionary
  5. encroachment: Vocabulary.com
  6. Encroachment, encroachment: Wordnik
  7. encroachment: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. encroachment: Wiktionary
  9. encroachment: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. encroachment: Dictionary.com
  11. encroachment: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Encroachment (American football), Encroachment (gridiron football), Encroachment: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Encroachment: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. encroachment: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. encroachment: Rhymezone
  16. Encroachment: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. encroachment: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. encroachment: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. encroachment: Free Dictionary
  20. encroachment: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. encroachment: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. encroachment: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Real Estate and Mortgage Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. encroachment: Legal dictionary
  10. encroachment: Financial dictionary
  11. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  12. Encroachment: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encroachment: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encroachment: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Football Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  3. Encroachment: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (encroachment)

noun:  An entry into a place or area that was previously uncommon; an advance beyond former borders; intrusion; incursion.
noun:  An intrusion upon another's possessions or rights; infringement.
noun:  That which is gained by such unlawful intrusion.
noun:  (law) An unlawful diminution of the possessions of another.

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