encirclement
noun/ɪnˈsɜːklmənt/
/ɪnˈsɜːrklmənt/
[uncountable] (formal)- the act of surrounding somebody/something completely in a circle
- The encirclement of the world by telegraph by the early 1870s represented a revolution in communications.
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