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noun

The historical process, primarily in England from the 16th to 19th centuries, of converting common land and open fields into privately owned, fenced-in parcels, fundamentally altering agriculture and land ownership.

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His essays include The Second Enclosure Movement, a study of the economic rhetoric of price discrimination in digital commerce, and a Manifesto on WIPO.

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James

The Enclosure Movement displaced many rural families, forcing them to seek work in burgeoning industrial cities.

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Possible Synonyms

land consolidation
partition of the fields
privatization of commons
land privatization
fencing of the commons

Possible Antonyms

collective farming
communal land tenure
unenclosed land
common land system
open-field system