Usually means: Included or surrounded within boundaries.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. encompassed: Merriam-Webster
  2. encompassed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. encompassed: Vocabulary.com
  4. Encompassed, encompassed: Wordnik
  5. encompassed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. encompassed: Wiktionary
  7. Encompassed, encompassed: Dictionary.com
  8. encompassed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Encompassed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Encompassed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. encompassed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. encompassed: FreeDictionary.org
  13. encompassed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encompassed: Legal dictionary

(Note: See encompass as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (encompass)

verb:  (transitive) To form a circle around; to encircle.
verb:  (transitive) To include within its scope; to circumscribe or go round so as to surround; to enclose; to contain.
verb:  (transitive) To include completely; to describe fully or comprehensively.
verb:  (transitive) To go around, especially, to circumnavigate.
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