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Translations inroads [ˈɪnrəʊdz] NPL the inroads of mass tourism → los efectos del turismo de masas she had to make inroads into her savings → tuvo que recurrir a sus ahorros, tuvo que echar mano de sus ahorros they made significant inroads into Chinese territory → realizaron grandes avances dentro del territorio chino they are making inroads into the European market → se están adentrando en el mercado europeo I can see you've made inroads into that cake (hum) → ya veo que le has metido mano a la tarta to make inroads into sb's time → robar el tiempo a algn Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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advance assault attack encroachment foray headway Inbreak incursion inroad intrusion invasion onslaught penetration provability provable provably proved Prover raid | Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures, therefore,which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which, in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production. They were, consequently, the first dispossessed; and the seemingly inevitable fate of all these people, who disappear before the advances, or it might be termed the inroads, of civilization, as the verdure of their native forests falls before the nipping frosts, is represented as having already befallen them. After we passed this mighty nothing, called a wall, something like the Picts' walls so famous in Northumberland, built by the Romans, we began to find the country thinly inhabited, and the people rather confined to live in fortified towns, as being subject to the inroads and depredations of the Tartars, who rob in great armies, and therefore are not to be resisted by the naked inhabitants of an open country. |
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INREQ INRETS INREV inrevocabilis INRF INRFVVP INRG INRGL INRH INRI INRI Inria Inria INRIC inridere Inrin INRIS INRISS inritus INRLEC INRLF INRM INRMP INRNE inro inro inroad inroad inroad inroads Inrollinrolling Inrollment inros INRP INRr InRRDP INRS INRSS INRST INRUD inrumpere Inrunning inruptio inrush inrush inrush Inrush current Inrush current Inrush current Inrush current limiter inrushes inrushes inrushing inrushing INS INS INS INS ins and outs | |||||||
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