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Alternative forms

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  • inclosure(was as common as or more common until the early 1800s; now uncommon)

Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishenclosure, fromOld Frenchenclosure, fromenclore, fromLatininclūdere, inclūdō, fromin-(in) +claudō(to shut), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*kleh₂u-(key, hook, nail). Alike toinclusion.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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enclosure (countable anduncountable,pluralenclosures)

  1. (countable) Something that isenclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
    There was anenclosure with the letter — a photo.
  2. (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion orinclusion of an item in a letter or package.
    Theenclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.
  3. (countable) Anarea,domain, or amount of somethingpartially orentirely enclosed bybarriers.
    He faced punishment for creating the fencedenclosure in a public park.
    The glassenclosure holds the mercury vapor.
    The winning horse was first into the unsaddlingenclosure.
    • 1899 February,Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, inBlackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, [],→OCLC, part I,page199:
      And the village was deserted, the huts gaped black, rotting, all askew within the fallenenclosures.
    • 1989,Octavia E. Butler, “Part III, Chapter 7”, inImago, page210:
      Away from the village, there was anenclosure containing several large animals of a kind I had not seen before—shaggy, long-necked, small-headed creatures who stood or lay at ease around their pen.Alpacas?
  4. (uncountable) The act ofseparating andsurrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
    Theenclosure of public land is against the law.
    The experiment requires theenclosure of mercury vapor in a glass tube.
    At first, untrained horses resistenclosure.
  5. (uncountable, by extension) The act ofrestricting access toideas,works of art or technologies usingpatents orintellectual propertylaws.
    • 2014,Astra Taylor, chapter 5, inThe People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company,→ISBN:
      Copyright, from day one, was designed to be both an impediment and an incentive, a mechanism ofenclosure (one that prevented the unlicensed printing of texts, thereby limiting access) and a catalyst of sorts, a structure to stimulate the production of literary goods by rewarding writers and publishers for their labor.
    • 2019, Robert Stam,World Literature, Transnational Cinema, and Global Media[1], Routledge,→ISBN:
      Thecommons evokes resistance to “enclosure” in all its forms, whether in its early proto-capitalist form of fencing in commonly shared land, or in its contemporary forms of marshalling judicial restraints such as “patent” and “intellectual property” to police the ownership of ideas.
  6. (uncountable, British History) Thepost-feudal process ofsubdivision ofcommon lands for individual ownership.
    Strip-farming disappeared afterenclosure.
  7. (religion) The area of aconvent,monastery, etc whereaccess isrestricted to community members.

Usage notes

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  • For more on the spelling of this word, seeenclose.

Derived terms

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Translations

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something enclosed
act of enclosing
area partially or entirely enclosed by walls, fences or buildings
act of separating and surrounding an area etc. with a barrier
post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership
inaccessible part of the monastery
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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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enclos-, stem ofenclore +‎-ure.

Noun

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enclosureoblique singularf (oblique pluralenclosures,nominative singularenclosure,nominative pluralenclosures)

  1. enclosure (act of enclosing something)
  2. enclosure (enclosed area)

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