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(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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I. verb Etymology: Middle English forrayen, from Anglo-French forreyer, foreer, probably back-formation from *forrier, *forreour forager, raider, from fuerre, foer provender — more at forage Date: 14th century transitive verb archaic to ravage in search of spoils ; pillage intransitive verb to make a raid or brief invasion ~ed into enemy territory • ~er noun II. noun Date: 14th century 1. a sudden or irregular invasion or attack for war or spoils ; raid 2. a brief excursion or attempt especially outside one's accustomed sphere the novelist's ~ into nonfiction ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. a sudden attack; a raid or incursion. --v.intr. make or go on a foray. Etymology: ME, prob. earlier as verb: back-form. f. forayer f. OF forrier forager, rel. to FODDER ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. налет, набег, вылазка to make (to go on) foray —- делать набеги, совершать налет 2. ирон. покушение (на что-л.); попытка his unsuccessful foray into politics —- его неудачная попытка заняться политической деятельностью 3. делать набеги, совершать налет 4. опустошать, грабить to foray a land —- опустошать страну ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~1 n 1 a short attempt at doing a particular job or activity, especially one that is very different from what you usually do (After a brief unsuccessful foray into politics, he went back to his law practice.) 2 a short sudden attack by a group of soldiers (their nightly forays into enemy territory) 3 a short journey somewhere in order to get something or do something (her twice-weekly foray to the shops) ~2 v I + into to go out and make a sudden attack against the enemy, especially in order to get food or supplies ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1375, Scottish back-formation of forreyer "raider, forager," from O.Fr. forrier, from forrer "to forage," related to fuerre "fodder" (see forage). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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