incursion
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See also: incursión
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French, from Latin incursiō, incursiōnem.
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ɪŋˈkɜː(ɹ)ʒən/, /ɪŋˈkɜː(ɹ)ʃən/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən, -ɜː(ɹ)ʃən
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun[edit]
incursion (plural incursions)
- An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion.
- 1947 January and February, H. A. Vallance, “The Sea Wall at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
- Fascinating though the journey is to the traveller, for many years this section of the line was a source of considerable anxiety to the maintenance engineers, and on more than one occasion landslips and incursions of the sea resulted in the railway being closed for several days.
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Translations[edit]
aggressive movement
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References[edit]
- “incursion”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old French, from Latin incursiōnem.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
incursion f (plural incursions)
Related terms[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “incursion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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