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enclave | American Dictionary

enclave
noun[ C ]
us/ˈen·kleɪv, ˈɑn-/
an area that is different from the larger area or country surrounding it, or a group of people who are different from the people living in the surrounding area:
Yorkville was an enclave of German immigrants.

Examples of enclave

enclave
Experts do not remove themselves from the crowd by relying on method but set themselves in closer proximity to the public outside the expert enclave.
An enclave is composed of an ethnic group living in a foreign land, typically in an urban setting.
On the one hand, such enclaves make life in the minority language viable.
The henequen industry, like most enclave economies based on agricultural crops was subject to international market conditions.
In such cases, scattered plagioclase crystals occur in the gabbro close to the enclaves.
The prolate versus oblate strain regimes recorded by enclaves and crystals, respectively, may be explained by the following.
As the narratives detail, these enclaves differed in the degree to which they centralized authority.
Ethnic clashes are always the result of outside, usually political, interests converting porous ethnic boundaries into over-determined enclaves or ghettos to suit their own agenda.
It shows the existence of important links between an industry that has usually been defined as a self-sufficient enclave and its hinterland.
The residents of enclaves may be expected to differ somewhat from the homeland population due to the founder effect and subsequent genetic isolation.
These leaders would come to construct enclaves governed by party-states-conflations of the state apparatus with those institutions regulating political ambition.
The inhabitants of an enclave may be physically distinct.
Almost all enclave rulers preferred to retain the white-only primary.
Thus, enclave rulers must pursue their goals within a polity featuring substantial popular control of office holding in the form of one-party rule.
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