Encroachment
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Encroachment is to advance beyond proper limits, and may refer to:
- Temporal encroachment
- Structural encroachment
- Encroachment (gridiron football), a penalty in American and Canadian football
- Encroachment by human populations on natural spaces that causes habitat fragmentation or habitat destruction