FORAY


Meaning of FORAY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ fɒreɪ, AM fɔ:reɪ ]

( forays)

1.

If you make a foray into a new or unfamiliar type of activity, you start to become involved in it.

Emporio Armani, the Italian fashion house, has made a discreet foray into furnishings.

...her first forays into politics.

N-COUNT : oft poss N , usu N into n

2.

You can refer to a short journey that you make as a foray if it seems to involve excitement or risk, for example because it is to an unfamiliar place or because you are looking for a particular thing.

Most guests make at least one foray into the town...

N-COUNT : usu N into/to n

3.

If a group of soldiers make a foray into enemy territory, they make a quick attack there, and then return to their own territory.

These base camps were used by the PKK guerrillas to make forays into Turkey.

= raid

N-COUNT : oft N into n

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