invasão
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Late Latin invāsiōnem (“attack, invasion”), from Latin invāsus (“entered, invaded”).
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: in‧va‧são
Noun
[edit]invasão f (plural invasões)
- invasion
- (Brazil) (illegally) occupied land
- 2011 December 21, Karine Rodrigues, “Aumenta número de brasileiros em assentamentos irregulares”, in O Globo[1]:
- Nas últimas duas décadas, a proporção de brasileiros vivendo nos chamados assentamentos irregulares, como favelas, invasões, baixadas e palafitas, praticamente dobrou, de acordo com os dados da publicação “Aglomerados Subnormais – Primeiros resultados”, do IBGE, relativos ao Censo 2010 divulgados nesta quarta-feira.
- In the last two decades, the proportion of Brazilians living in so-called irregular settlements, such as favelas, illegally occupied lots, floodplains and stilt houses, has practically doubled, according to data from the publication "Abnormal Agglomerations - First Results" by the IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics) concerning the 2010 census, which was published this Wednesday.
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