Meaning of invasion in English

invasion

noun [ C or U ]

/ɪnˈveɪ.ʒən/ us

/ɪnˈveɪ.ʒən/

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an occasion when an army or country uses force to enter and take control of another country:

They were planning to mount an invasion of the north of the country.

an occasion when a large number of people or things come to a place in an annoying and unwanted way:

the annual invasion of foreign tourists

an action or process that affects someone's life in an unpleasant and unwanted way:

an invasion of privacy

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The D-Day invasion was a concerted exercise by the armed forces of Britain, the US and Canada.
The ancient Britons inhabited these parts of England before the Roman invasion.
Thousands of troops have massed along the border in preparation for an invasion.
British troops spearheaded the invasion.
The overnight invasion took the military experts unawares.

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(Definition of invasion from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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invasion

noun [ C ]

/ɪnˈveɪ·ʒən/

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the act of entering a place by force, often in large numbers:

the invasion of the Normandy coast on D-day

fig. I certainly regarded the tapping of my phone as an invasion of (my) privacy.

(Definition of invasion from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of invasion

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At this point, villages were teetering on the brink of famine as locust invasions threatened to consume the limited food crops that had been planted.

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Linking climate change and biological invasions: ocean warming facilitates nonindigenous species invasions.

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Species diversity and biological invasions: relating local process to community pattern.

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The political theory was based on the belief that wealth could be lost because of natural disasters and because of invasions by other states.

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What, if any, common features had these many and very different alien invasions and invaders ?

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However, on average, those invasions that are successful should be in areas where all aspects of the environment are suitable and some are favourable.

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On the other hand, parasitologists should benefit in their future research from information on invasions and colonizations by host animals.

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Does it simply fall silent, or does it emit a loud, high-pitched, non-stop screech evocative of alien invasions in science fiction movies?

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All available evidence, including the logistical and financial support for the invasions, points to the state's involvement.

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Biological invasions provide an interesting context to study such host-parasite relationships.

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Even in the most violent and chaotic farm invasions during the ' time of jambanja ' there was an equally instrumental order beneath ostensible disorder.

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If high tree-species diversity resists invasions, one would expect monodominant forests to be more invasible.

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Predicting and explaining plant invasions through analysis of source area floras: some critical consideration.

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Various kinds of hunger crises caused by natural disasters such as drought, invasions of locusts, blight and other pests and epidemics can be categorized.

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The potential for future fruit fly invasions is of great concern to regulatory agencies and domestic growers.

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alien invasion

Effectively, acts of writing and reading are being offered by him as ways of potentiating alien invasion.

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barbarian invasion

There was constant barbarian invasion, civil war, and hyperinflation.

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biological invasion

Consequences of a biological invasion reveal the importance of mutualism for plant communities.

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What is the pronunciation of invasion?

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Translations of invasion

in Chinese (Traditional)

入侵，侵略, （通常為了謀財或搞破壞而不受歡迎地）湧入，蜂擁而至, 侵犯，侵擾…

Meaning of invasion in English

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