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Something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in an envelope with a covering letter
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enclosure
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Word definitions for enclosure in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE new ▪ The new enclosures varied in size according to the size of the farms. ▪ They caught wildfowl for the ever-increasing colony, and built new pens and enclosures for them. ▪ As a result there was much new enclosure ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "action of enclosing," from enclose + -ure . Meaning "that which is enclosed" is from 1550s.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Enclosure is the process of converting common land into private land. Enclosure or enclosed may also refer to: Enclosure, in agriculture, an area of land used for growing crops or keeping livestock: see field Enclosure (archaeology) , an area of land separated ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. (context countable English) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package. n. (context countable English) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
Usage examples of enclosure.
Sour clumps of travelers drifted amongst the chuck wagons and the anachronistically styled riding enclosures, looking grim.
As he walked away, he decided not to bring Ascot to the enclosure until just before the race.
Matters were not proceeding well, Rossmere decided when he had managed to bring Ascot into the enclosure.
But there were horses all around the enclosure, and Ascot continued to exhibit his displeasure.
The dry wood split and spread, but held by the iron enclosure of the axhead, could not splinter.
The garage opened slowly and balkily, gears jammed with dust, and Charles parked the tractor in its dark enclosure.
They led him out into a small courtyard and through another door into a larger enclosure, around whose walls were seated a hundred or more Beja warriors.
Pens of pigs and goats, a large enclosure of chickens, ducks and geese in a pond, a few pens of cavies cooing and bubbling.
Behind them was a table with a vertical centerboard studded with instruments registering their measurements and recording devices vomiting paper trails, all inside a wicker enclosure.
The features of the elevated enclosure of San Carlos can be recognized in dim outline, and also those of the Old Town of Coruna around, though scarcely a lamp is shining.
Beyond the columns lay the choir enclosure and the high altar, with pyx and tabernacle, behind which towered a monumental downlighted crucifix.
Their resistance to enclosure of common land, pond drainage and woodland is perhaps better characterized as a struggle for capital resources with the agents of seigneurial estates than as blind conservatism.
I lost my balance on the wet sole, went sprawling, and banged my head so hard on the flybridge enclosure that I knocked myself silly.
Even with the wind blowing and the rain pounding hard against the glass enclosure, Gitana knew that a wolf was there watching her.
And there was the Horntail, at the other end of the enclosure, crouched low over her clutch of eggs, her wings half-furled, her evil, yellow eyes upon him, a monstrous, scaly, black lizard, thrashing her spiked tail, heaving yard-long gouge marks in the hard ground.