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inroads

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inroads [ˈɪnrəʊdz] NPL the inroads of mass tourismlos efectos del turismo de masas
she had to make inroads into her savingstuvo que recurrir a sus ahorros, tuvo que echar mano de sus ahorros
they made significant inroads into Chinese territoryrealizaron grandes avances dentro del territorio chino
they are making inroads into the European marketse 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 timerobar el tiempo a algn
inroads [ˈɪnrəʊdz] npl
to make inroads into [+ savings, supplies] → entamer
inroads [ˈɪnˌrəʊdz] npl to make inroads into (savings, supplies) → intaccare (seriamente)


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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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