encroachment
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Law noun
An intrusion onto a neighbour's land by a structure or shifted boundary.
The new extension's encroachment over the party line sparked the entire dispute.
Business noun
An intrusion onto another's land, such as a structure crossing a boundary.
The survey revealed an encroachment where the warehouse eaves oversailed the adjoining plot.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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