impinging

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Culture posts will always attract complaints from those that see this sort of thing as impinging on their personal time.

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Quick take

the physical coming together of two or more things; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull"

Meaning at a glance

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noun

the physical coming together of two or more things; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for impinging.

noun

the physical coming together of two or more things; "contact with the pier scraped paint from the hull"

Example sentences

Culture posts will always attract complaints from those that see this sort of thing as impinging on their personal time.

This would at the very least be seen as impinging on the rights of the family, it would likely need armed support.

You could even call it "thought leadership" without impinging on the wider sense of "leadership".

I think for the good of the group should only extend until it starting impinging on the rights of the individual.

Metadata collation as impinging on freedom of association.

Secondly, I hear that phrase being used to justify all sorts of things that I consider to be impinging on my freedom rather than increasing it, such as using my tax dollars to wage wars against countries that are not actually threatening my freedom at all.

So basically, the US government should spend even more money and kill even more people to prosecute the "war on drugs" and "war on terror" whilst not impinging upon the "freedom" of regulated financial institutions to intentionally fund the mafiosi and terrorists they're fighting against.

Note as well that she is going out of her way to be circumspect about the identity of the person in question; I am perfectly willing to believe that there's more to the story but that she is choosing to exercise some discretion to avoid impinging on the person as an individual and also to avoid the possibility of a libel accusation.