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What is the noun for enclosures?

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enclosure
  1. (countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
  2. (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
  3. (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
  4. (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
  5. (uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
  6. (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “The regional market is held in a large enclosure where goods are sold out in the open.”
      “He grew wheat, raised cattle, and had some wild animals that he had captured and kept in an enclosure.”
      “The prisoners in the enclosure were methodically fed at noon.”
encloser
  1. (now chiefly historical) Someone who appropriates common land.
  2. More generally, someone or something that encloses something.
  3. (programming) An object, procedure, or other portion of code that defines the scope of a variable.
  4. Examples:
    1. “Ironically, it was the encloser who had acted in an unbounded manner by violating the institutional boundaries of local community power.”
      “Payments for ecosystem services look to me like the prelude to the greatest privatisation since Rousseau's encloser first made an exclusive claim to the land.”
      “The attentive and regulary observation of a tortoise in its encloser, terrarium or acquarium could allow an erly detection of certain alarm symptom that, when underestimated, can put in danger the life of the animal.”
enclosing
  1. That which encloses.
  2. The act or situation by which something is enclosed.
  3. Synonyms:
inclosure
  1. (now uncommon) Alternative spelling of enclosure
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “An Inari shrine in a plum grove offered no particular interest, beyond recent inclosure showing a neighbour's hand.”
      “It stood in the centre of an inclosure of several acres, which was covered with fruit-trees.”
      “Moreover, the statutes have never enabled an inclosure to be made against commoners entitled to estovers or turbary.”
incloser
  1. Archaic form of encloser.
enclosings
enclosures
  1. plural of enclosure
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Since steel parts rust, manufacturers have recently switched to aluminum frames for these enclosures.”
      “The reptiles were kept in enclosures covered by nets to stop birds from munching the lizards.”
      “The warrens and enclosures at High and Low Dalby belonged to the Duchy of Lancaster and extended to nearly 3,000 acres.”
inclosures
inclosers
  1. plural of incloser
enclosers
  1. plural of encloser
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