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单词 investment line
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investment line
5. Military. The surrounding of a town, stronghold, etc., by a hostile force so as to cut off outside communication and aid; (also) an instance of this. Also attributive, esp. in investment line. Now historical.In quot. 1702 in figurative context.
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society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [noun]
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1702 Prerogative of Breeches 2 The Fortress of Pretence and Hypocrisy, whose outworks are so soft and Silken that they court an Investment.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Leaguer, siege; investment of a town.
1811 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VII. 214 You will likewise have heard of the surrender of Olivença, and of the subsequent investment of Badajoz.
1854 Ld. Raglan Let. 8 Oct. in J. Martineau Life H. Pelham (1908) vii. 163 To draw the investment closer.
1884 Instr. Mil. Engin. (ed. 3) I. ii. 17 Some distance in rear of the investment line.
1914 Sci. Amer. 3 Oct. 286/2 The Germans, in our belief, never contemplated for a moment, a complete investment of Paris.
1963 Jrnl. Illinois State Hist. Soc. 56 248 These siege guns were emplaced along the investment line.
2013 N. Murray Rocky Road to Great War ii. 54 The investment [of Plevna] was a slow process as the Russian Army whittled down and cut Osman Pasha's lines of communication.
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