noun [C,U]
1 the act of an army entering another country by force in order to take control of it:
the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 * the threat of invasion * an invasion force / fleet
2 the fact of a large number of people or things arriving somewhere, especially people or things that are disturbing or unpleasant:
the annual tourist invasion * Farmers are struggling to cope with an invasion of slugs.
3 an act or a process that affects sb/sth in a way that is not welcome:
The actress described the photographs of her as an invasion of privacy.
seealsoINVADE
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for invasion is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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