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| Phonetics: | ||
| Tone colors (āáǎàa): |
| Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|
| cham1 jim1, jim3 | cam1 zim1, zim3 | to invade and occupy (territory) |
| Traditional Chinese | Pinyin | Yale | Jyutping | English Definition for Chinese Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cham1 | cam1 | to invade / to encroach / to infringe / to approach | ||
| jim1, jim3 | zim1, zim3 | variant of 占[zhan4] |
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They accused him of having peculated the public money.
No one is allowed to appropriate state property to himself.
His new farm buildings encroached on his neighbour's land.
Other charges include fraud and illegal appropriation of land.
The job was beginning to make unreasonable demands on his free time.
The problem was to safeguard sites from encroachment by property development.
This has been done by plundering £4 billion from the Government reserves.
The Vandals from Carthage took and sacked Rome in 455.
