incursion
See also: incursión
English
editEtymology
editFrom 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
editincursion (plural incursions)
- A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of destruction, plunder, or bodily harm rather than an intent to conquer territory or alter the established government;[1] contrast invasion in its narrow sense.
- An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion in the general sense.
- 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.
- (Australia) A function hosted within an educational institution, especially by or for students, for recreation, research, education or a display of works.
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editTranslations
editaggressive movement
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References
edit- “incursion”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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editFrench
editEtymology
editInherited from Old French, from Latin incursiōnem.
Pronunciation
editAudio: (file)
Noun
editincursion f (plural incursions)
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editFurther reading
edit- “incursion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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