Usually means: Surrounding an area or enemy.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. encirclement: Merriam-Webster
  2. encirclement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. encirclement: Collins English Dictionary
  4. encirclement: Vocabulary.com
  5. Encirclement, encirclement: Wordnik
  6. encirclement: Wiktionary
  7. encirclement: Dictionary.com
  8. Encirclement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. encirclement: Rhymezone
  10. encirclement: FreeDictionary.org
  11. encirclement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. encirclement: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. encirclement: Encyclopedia

(Note: See encircle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (encirclement)

noun:  The act of encircling or the state of being encircled
noun:  (military) The isolation of a target by the formation of a blockade around it

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