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enclosers

enclosers is the plural of encloser.

Meaning of encloser

Noun

encloser (plural enclosers)

  1. (historical) Someone who appropriates common land.
    • It was said, for example, that […] the families of notorious enclosers always died out in three generations […].1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 94
  2. More generally, someone or something that encloses something.
  3. An object, procedure, or other portion of code that defines the scope of a variable.

Questions about enclosers

What is enclosers the plural of?
Enclosers is the plural of encloser.

Words near enclosers in the dictionary

  1. enclosed
  2. enclosed order
  3. enclosed orders
  4. enclosedness
  5. encloser
  6. enclosers
  7. encloses
  8. enclosest
  9. encloseth
  10. enclosing
  11. enclosings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: enclosers (page history and authors); encloser (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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