Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of enmesh.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word enmeshing.

Examples

  • There was a good deal of "enmeshing" there, too, as the majority Black population served as an endless supply of cheap labour for the white elite, and was too populous in any case to be banished holus-bolus to the bantustans.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • There was a good deal of "enmeshing" there, too, as the majority Black population served as an endless supply of cheap labour for the white elite, and was too populous in any case to be banished holus-bolus to the bantustans.

    West Bank apartheid: 2008 2008

  • Its "golden handcuffs" approach of finding wives for captured terrorists and enmeshing them in a web of personal, financial, religious and professional obligations once released is regarded as pioneering.

    Militants teach jihad in Indonesian prisons 2011

  • Its "golden handcuffs" approach of finding wives for captured terrorists and enmeshing them in a web of personal, financial, religious and professional obligations once released is regarded as pioneering.

    Militants teach jihad in Indonesian prisons 2011

  • By recognizing that how China uses its military, rather than just how how bit or expensive it is, is an important variable, the Obama administration is not only taking into account an important consideration (the desirability of enmeshing the Chinese government deeper into the international community, and having more resources to draw on for peacekeeping and other collective international missions), but is promoting peace.

    Matthew Yglesias » QDR on China 2010

  • By enmeshing the states in these regions in security alliances that it dominates and obviating their need to develop air and naval forces with global reach (ensuring, for instance, the safe flow of oil from the Persian Gulf), Washington has prevented potential great powers from pursuing autonomous and, so the thinking goes, possibly destabilizing policies.

    Globaloney 2009

  • Whereas Chinese sabre-rattling in the mid-1990s ultimately achieved very little politically, this is about enmeshing the two economies in such a way that Taiwan's future is tied to China's.

    Why Taiwan Will Fail John Lee 2011

  • The rationale for enmeshing a rising China in a system of global rules breaks down if Beijing violates those rules with impunity.

    China's Rare Earths Gambit 2010

  • She now oversees a team of people dedicated to enmeshing politicians, celebrities, producers and programmers in this particular bit of the web.

    How Twitter saved event TV 2012

  • All these procedures are deeply familiar to European leaders, but rather new to the Asian and American leaders whom they are carefully enmeshing in this new structure.

    Zero-Sum Future Gideon Rachman 2011

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.