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noun reɪdreɪd 1A rapid surprise attack on an enemy by troops, aircraft, or other armed forces. Example sentencesExamples - Whether it's getting out of an ambush, or getting into position for a raid or attack, the extra speed leaves the enemy at a disadvantage.
- Too weak to attack their enemies' high-tech military head on, they resisted through surprise raids and bombings.
- Niven had volunteered for a secret military commando unit making raids on the enemy coastline.
- A raid by army troops and intelligence agents on the town uncovered the 10 kilogramme belt concealed in a solar water tank.
- Corsairs made repeated raids on enemy airfields, shipping, and equipment during various battles of the island-hopping war.
- He began flying aircraft and was soon involved in bombing raids.
- They played an important part in preventing enemy raids, sabotage and terrorist operations.
- A mix of airstrikes and coordinated raids would destroy the group's material assets in Somalia.
- Six years after the field was attacked in the raid on Pearl Harbor, the first cabins went up.
- The US initiated bombing raids and dispatched ground troops.
- The Edmonton native questions the mechanisms that allow us to condone military bombing raids on civilians while we demand that gang warfare be severely punished.
- The first place they took to us was the village where they said some 200 people had died in aircraft bombing raid.
- This man tells us he was blinded after a bombing raid by Sudanese aircraft.
- But all aerial bombardments, offensive raids, ambushes and assassinations are to come to a halt, he said.
- The unit also did night raids and bombed enemy land targets.
- It is primarily employed in close air support of ground troops, target destruction raids, and armed escort of other aircraft.
- Inside the paper's leader likened the attack to the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbour.
- Tribal forces specialize in raids, skirmishes, and ambushes where the assault rifle, machinegun, mortar, and mine are basic weapons.
- From the fall of France in May 1940 the role of the RAF was essentially defensive, save for raids on enemy airfields and occasional bombing attacks to boost morale.
- Both the Central Powers and the Allies used aircraft on strategic bombing raids, targeting enemy industries and to a lesser extent enemy civilians.
Synonyms surprise attack, hit-and-run raid, tip-and-run raid, assault, descent, blitz, incursion, foray, sortie sally, inroad, onslaught, onrush, storming, charge, thrust, offensive, invasion German blitzkrieg Italian razzia - 1.1 A rapid surprise attack to commit a crime, especially to steal from business premises.
an early morning raid on a bank Example sentencesExamples - The trio inside were heading home to Leeds with their loot from a smash-and-grab raid on a York computer business.
- A Leeds woman who single-handedly tackled an armed robber and prevented a raid on a building society was yesterday honoured for her bravery by the Home Secretary.
- Last month more than 1,300 kilograms of ammonium nitrate were stolen in a raid on a quarry.
- Around £12,000 worth of tack was taken in the first break-in and a child's quad bike stolen on a second raid by thieves.
- Detectives investigating the death of a wealthy Yorkshire businessman in a raid on his luxury home believe he was murdered and deliberately singled out by his attackers.
- The works were stolen in an early-morning raid on April 20, when the thieves broke into the Brücke-Museum.
- In at least two of the raids, the robbers fled in cars stolen in Dublin the previous night.
- In 1976 he was awarded the Scott Medal for bravery after tackling two armed robbers following a raid on a post office.
- Masked robbers wielding nine-inch bladed knives stole cash during the latest raid on a Bradford burger bar.
- Two of the accused are also charged with using weapons stolen in the raid to attack a brewery.
- His son was shot by masked robbers during a raid on his home at Elvington last year.
- Expensive hair products, made popular by TV series The Salon, have been plundered in smash-and-grab raids on hairdressers' shops in Bradford.
- So they went underground, formed the Red Army Faction, and carried out bank raids, kidnappings, hijacks and bombings.
- A schoolgirl has made a desperate plea for the return of ‘irreplaceable’ A-level coursework, which was stolen in a raid on her car.
- Last Tuesday, the 64-year-old jeweller was shot dead by a robber during a raid on her shop in Nottingham.
- He said five two-way radios, a pair of binoculars and an expensive waterproof mobile phone were stolen in the raid on their hut.
- Hundreds of DVDs, CDs and PlayStation games were stolen in the biggest raid on a west Wiltshire library in 20 years, with police at a loss to explain how the burglars got in.
- The prosecution, in the trial of two men accused of conspiracy to burgle following a raid on Swindon based Motorola, was due to rest its case today.
- He has appealed for the return of his England caps, stolen during a raid on his family home.
- Documents were taken in a connected raid on premises in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, and £11,150 in cash from a house in the Rochdale area.
Synonyms robbery, burglary, hold-up, break-in mugging, robbing, pillaging, looting, plunder, plundering, ransacking, sack, sacking, marauding informal snatch, smash-and-grab British informal blag North American informal heist, stick-up - 1.2 A surprise visit by police to arrest suspects or seize illicit goods.
a police raid on his home Example sentencesExamples - Three of the four alleged July 21 bombers were arrested in police raids in London and Birmingham last week
- An Algerian asylum seeker arrested in Bury during police raids on terrorist suspects has been jailed for six months for using a false passport.
- Police evicted 800 club-goers in the raid on Saturday and arrested 13 people, two of whom were members of staff at the club.
- Lunchtime shoppers gazed in astonishment as police launched a full-scale raid on a suspected drug pusher operating from York city centre.
- A substantial quantity of suspected class A and class C drugs have been seized by police in a raid on a house in Orkney.
- During the raid, police also seized drug paraphernalia, money and other items connected with the investigation.
- The men were arrested during raids by anti-terrorist police across the South-East two weeks ago.
- Two men were arrested later in raids by armed police.
- So far, it has sparked a massive increase in calls to Crimestoppers prompting a string of police raids and arrests.
- Police carried out 23 raids and made 21 arrests.
- The girl's mother was arrested in a raid by police and Drug Enforcement Administration agents.
- The prosecutor said that a total of 247 images were found on the hard drive of the suspect's computer after it was seized by police during a raid on his home.
- The disclosures forced the police to quickly arrest 12 suspects in raids across England.
- As well as springing suspects in early morning raids, police have been employing DNA technology, linking vandals to their crimes by blood left at the scene.
- A relative of one of the suspected bombers was arrested following police raids of six homes in Leeds, West Yorkshire, and two cars were seized.
- Police say a raid of the suspects apartment turned up 200 kilos of explosives and other weapons.
- The bombs were apparently planted in order to justify the police force's brutal raid on the school.
- A camper van used by the Irish holidaymaker is believed to have been one of four vehicles seized by police during a raid on the campsite.
- Five people were arrested in separate police raids in England and in Holland.
- Prosecutors claim three of the men arrested in Tuesday's raids were found by police at the reactor in December last year.
Synonyms swoop, surprise search North American informal bust, takedown - 1.3Stock Market A hostile attempt to buy a major or controlling interest in the shares of a company.
Example sentencesExamples - News of the raid is expected to force Yukos shares, which have already lost half their value since April, lower again.
- The raids followed a series of complaints from investors in Australia, who were phoned by salespeople in Bangkok and invited to buy shares in Japan and Hong Kong.
- Certainly, the share raid was something to stick in the craw of Europe's biggest reseller and runaway market leader in the UK.
- ‘They knew we were coming,’ sighs a Hong Kong-based investigator who participated in the raid.
- A spokesman for ComReg said its policy was not to comment on raids.
verb reɪdreɪd [with object]1Conduct a raid on. officers raided thirty homes yesterday Example sentencesExamples - ‘We used to raid the farms and nick the chickens, and make a bloody good stew,’ he chuckled.
- Rob can tell that teenage hoodlums who raid his store are stealing for someone else because of the records they turn over when caught.
- Thieves have raided a motorway petrol garage three times in a fortnight one of them wearing a jacket he had stolen on an earlier visit.
- He had nightmares every time he helped raid a village.
- They had police dogs raiding the crowd of people and I saw a dog signal out a guy who obviously had some drugs on him.
- In this case, the police sent a mobile uniformed squad somewhere else so that the observers thought it was safe and then used 70 plainclothes officers to raid the discotheque.
- Five grammes of heroin was recovered when drug squad officers raided the house in Severn Avenue earlier this week.
- Police officers have raided homes in Bradford in a high-profile operation.
- A gang of thieves raided Brickens Post Office at lunch time last Thursday afternoon.
- Thieves raided a children's activity centre and stole hundreds of pounds and six computers.
- Axel and his team set out one night to raid an illegal ‘chop shop’ where stolen vehicles are dismantled and disguised for resale.
- A more crude approach is bin raiding, where thieves steal rubbish to search for sensitive documents such as bank statements or utility bills.
- Yesterday a Black Watch raiding party carried out a smash and grab raid into the city, destroying five T55 tanks.
- Plundering and raiding, pirating and smuggling were the only ways they could survive in this universe…
- She had like Masaki since she first saw him at the age of twelve, when he visited after some thieves tried to raid his transport and had to stay the night for security.
- This is the haul of drugs seized when 25 police officers raided a Highworth pub.
- Each year we give them a small amount of food so that they do not raid our village.
- An egg thief who raided bird's nests in Orkney has been placed on probation and had his car confiscated.
- Just as they ran towards the back door, the front was kicked in and officers raided the house.
- Despicable thieves have been raiding Salisbury's charity shops, taking cash and causing thousands of pounds' worth of damage.
Synonyms attack, make a raid on, assault, set upon, descend on, swoop on, harass, harry, blitz, make inroads on, assail, storm, rush, charge plunder, steal from, pillage, loot, rifle, maraud, strip, ransack, sack literary despoil archaic reave, spoil rare depredate, spoliate, forage rob, steal from, hold up, break into, make a raid on North American informal stick up search, make a search of, swoop on, make a raid on North American informal bust - 1.1 Quickly and illicitly take something from (a place)
she crept downstairs to raid the larder Example sentencesExamples - While officers were covering the crime scene they discovered that the thieves had also raided the refrigerator for food.
- Alternatively, please everyone and raid your room mini bar as you watch the Pattaya Mail Channel's latest features.
- I guess there was only one thing to do: ceremoniously raid the fridge.
- When the search party returned they found Brush in the kitchen raiding the fridge.
- After being in my thoughts for a while, I decided to raid her fridge.
- If they are not physically attacking them, they are raiding fields for food.
- Those who don't have their own will raid the store room for tartan shirts to make into kilts.
Origin Late Middle English (as a noun): Scots variant of road in the early senses 'journey on horseback', 'foray'. The noun became rare from the end of the 16th century but was revived by Sir Walter Scott; the verb dates from the mid 19th century. Rhymes abrade, afraid, aid, aide, ambuscade, arcade, balustrade, barricade, Belgrade, blade, blockade, braid, brigade, brocade, cannonade, carronade, cascade, cavalcade, cockade, colonnade, crusade, dissuade, downgrade, enfilade, esplanade, evade, fade, fusillade, glade, grade, grenade, grillade, handmade, harlequinade, homemade, invade, jade, lade, laid, lemonade, limeade, made, maid, man-made, marinade, masquerade, newlaid, orangeade, paid, palisade, parade, pasquinade, persuade, pervade, serenade, shade, Sinéad, staid, stockade, stock-in-trade, suede, tailor-made, they'd, tirade, trade, Ubaid, underpaid, undismayed, unplayed, unsprayed, unswayed, upbraid, upgrade, wade abbreviationreɪdreɪd Computing Redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks, a system for providing greater capacity, faster access, and security against data corruption by spreading data across several disk drives.
nounreɪdrād 1A sudden attack on an enemy by troops, aircraft, or other armed forces in warfare. Example sentencesExamples - A mix of airstrikes and coordinated raids would destroy the group's material assets in Somalia.
- Both the Central Powers and the Allies used aircraft on strategic bombing raids, targeting enemy industries and to a lesser extent enemy civilians.
- The US initiated bombing raids and dispatched ground troops.
- Six years after the field was attacked in the raid on Pearl Harbor, the first cabins went up.
- A raid by army troops and intelligence agents on the town uncovered the 10 kilogramme belt concealed in a solar water tank.
- They played an important part in preventing enemy raids, sabotage and terrorist operations.
- The unit also did night raids and bombed enemy land targets.
- From the fall of France in May 1940 the role of the RAF was essentially defensive, save for raids on enemy airfields and occasional bombing attacks to boost morale.
- This man tells us he was blinded after a bombing raid by Sudanese aircraft.
- It is primarily employed in close air support of ground troops, target destruction raids, and armed escort of other aircraft.
- Tribal forces specialize in raids, skirmishes, and ambushes where the assault rifle, machinegun, mortar, and mine are basic weapons.
- But all aerial bombardments, offensive raids, ambushes and assassinations are to come to a halt, he said.
- Whether it's getting out of an ambush, or getting into position for a raid or attack, the extra speed leaves the enemy at a disadvantage.
- The first place they took to us was the village where they said some 200 people had died in aircraft bombing raid.
- Inside the paper's leader likened the attack to the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbour.
- The Edmonton native questions the mechanisms that allow us to condone military bombing raids on civilians while we demand that gang warfare be severely punished.
- Too weak to attack their enemies' high-tech military head on, they resisted through surprise raids and bombings.
- He began flying aircraft and was soon involved in bombing raids.
- Corsairs made repeated raids on enemy airfields, shipping, and equipment during various battles of the island-hopping war.
- Niven had volunteered for a secret military commando unit making raids on the enemy coastline.
Synonyms surprise attack, hit-and-run raid, tip-and-run raid, assault, descent, blitz, incursion, foray, sortie - 1.1 A surprise attack to commit a crime, especially to steal from business premises.
an early morning raid on a bank Example sentencesExamples - Two of the accused are also charged with using weapons stolen in the raid to attack a brewery.
- A schoolgirl has made a desperate plea for the return of ‘irreplaceable’ A-level coursework, which was stolen in a raid on her car.
- Expensive hair products, made popular by TV series The Salon, have been plundered in smash-and-grab raids on hairdressers' shops in Bradford.
- Masked robbers wielding nine-inch bladed knives stole cash during the latest raid on a Bradford burger bar.
- Around £12,000 worth of tack was taken in the first break-in and a child's quad bike stolen on a second raid by thieves.
- He said five two-way radios, a pair of binoculars and an expensive waterproof mobile phone were stolen in the raid on their hut.
- The works were stolen in an early-morning raid on April 20, when the thieves broke into the Brücke-Museum.
- So they went underground, formed the Red Army Faction, and carried out bank raids, kidnappings, hijacks and bombings.
- A Leeds woman who single-handedly tackled an armed robber and prevented a raid on a building society was yesterday honoured for her bravery by the Home Secretary.
- Last Tuesday, the 64-year-old jeweller was shot dead by a robber during a raid on her shop in Nottingham.
- Detectives investigating the death of a wealthy Yorkshire businessman in a raid on his luxury home believe he was murdered and deliberately singled out by his attackers.
- His son was shot by masked robbers during a raid on his home at Elvington last year.
- The prosecution, in the trial of two men accused of conspiracy to burgle following a raid on Swindon based Motorola, was due to rest its case today.
- He has appealed for the return of his England caps, stolen during a raid on his family home.
- In 1976 he was awarded the Scott Medal for bravery after tackling two armed robbers following a raid on a post office.
- Last month more than 1,300 kilograms of ammonium nitrate were stolen in a raid on a quarry.
- Hundreds of DVDs, CDs and PlayStation games were stolen in the biggest raid on a west Wiltshire library in 20 years, with police at a loss to explain how the burglars got in.
- The trio inside were heading home to Leeds with their loot from a smash-and-grab raid on a York computer business.
- Documents were taken in a connected raid on premises in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, and £11,150 in cash from a house in the Rochdale area.
- In at least two of the raids, the robbers fled in cars stolen in Dublin the previous night.
Synonyms robbery, burglary, hold-up, break-in - 1.2 A surprise visit by police to arrest suspected people or seize illicit goods.
Example sentencesExamples - The prosecutor said that a total of 247 images were found on the hard drive of the suspect's computer after it was seized by police during a raid on his home.
- A relative of one of the suspected bombers was arrested following police raids of six homes in Leeds, West Yorkshire, and two cars were seized.
- The disclosures forced the police to quickly arrest 12 suspects in raids across England.
- Three of the four alleged July 21 bombers were arrested in police raids in London and Birmingham last week
- Five people were arrested in separate police raids in England and in Holland.
- Two men were arrested later in raids by armed police.
- Police evicted 800 club-goers in the raid on Saturday and arrested 13 people, two of whom were members of staff at the club.
- The girl's mother was arrested in a raid by police and Drug Enforcement Administration agents.
- Police say a raid of the suspects apartment turned up 200 kilos of explosives and other weapons.
- A camper van used by the Irish holidaymaker is believed to have been one of four vehicles seized by police during a raid on the campsite.
- The men were arrested during raids by anti-terrorist police across the South-East two weeks ago.
- Prosecutors claim three of the men arrested in Tuesday's raids were found by police at the reactor in December last year.
- So far, it has sparked a massive increase in calls to Crimestoppers prompting a string of police raids and arrests.
- Police carried out 23 raids and made 21 arrests.
- The bombs were apparently planted in order to justify the police force's brutal raid on the school.
- Lunchtime shoppers gazed in astonishment as police launched a full-scale raid on a suspected drug pusher operating from York city centre.
- A substantial quantity of suspected class A and class C drugs have been seized by police in a raid on a house in Orkney.
- As well as springing suspects in early morning raids, police have been employing DNA technology, linking vandals to their crimes by blood left at the scene.
- During the raid, police also seized drug paraphernalia, money and other items connected with the investigation.
- An Algerian asylum seeker arrested in Bury during police raids on terrorist suspects has been jailed for six months for using a false passport.
- 1.3Stock Market A hostile attempt to buy a major or controlling interest in the shares of a company.
Example sentencesExamples - A spokesman for ComReg said its policy was not to comment on raids.
- ‘They knew we were coming,’ sighs a Hong Kong-based investigator who participated in the raid.
- The raids followed a series of complaints from investors in Australia, who were phoned by salespeople in Bangkok and invited to buy shares in Japan and Hong Kong.
- Certainly, the share raid was something to stick in the craw of Europe's biggest reseller and runaway market leader in the UK.
- News of the raid is expected to force Yukos shares, which have already lost half their value since April, lower again.
verbreɪdrād [with object]1Conduct a raid on. officers raided thirty homes yesterday Example sentencesExamples - Despicable thieves have been raiding Salisbury's charity shops, taking cash and causing thousands of pounds' worth of damage.
- Yesterday a Black Watch raiding party carried out a smash and grab raid into the city, destroying five T55 tanks.
- This is the haul of drugs seized when 25 police officers raided a Highworth pub.
- Each year we give them a small amount of food so that they do not raid our village.
- He had nightmares every time he helped raid a village.
- ‘We used to raid the farms and nick the chickens, and make a bloody good stew,’ he chuckled.
- Police officers have raided homes in Bradford in a high-profile operation.
- Axel and his team set out one night to raid an illegal ‘chop shop’ where stolen vehicles are dismantled and disguised for resale.
- A gang of thieves raided Brickens Post Office at lunch time last Thursday afternoon.
- A more crude approach is bin raiding, where thieves steal rubbish to search for sensitive documents such as bank statements or utility bills.
- Just as they ran towards the back door, the front was kicked in and officers raided the house.
- Thieves have raided a motorway petrol garage three times in a fortnight one of them wearing a jacket he had stolen on an earlier visit.
- They had police dogs raiding the crowd of people and I saw a dog signal out a guy who obviously had some drugs on him.
- An egg thief who raided bird's nests in Orkney has been placed on probation and had his car confiscated.
- Plundering and raiding, pirating and smuggling were the only ways they could survive in this universe…
- Five grammes of heroin was recovered when drug squad officers raided the house in Severn Avenue earlier this week.
- Rob can tell that teenage hoodlums who raid his store are stealing for someone else because of the records they turn over when caught.
- She had like Masaki since she first saw him at the age of twelve, when he visited after some thieves tried to raid his transport and had to stay the night for security.
- In this case, the police sent a mobile uniformed squad somewhere else so that the observers thought it was safe and then used 70 plainclothes officers to raid the discotheque.
- Thieves raided a children's activity centre and stole hundreds of pounds and six computers.
Synonyms attack, make a raid on, assault, set upon, descend on, swoop on, harass, harry, blitz, make inroads on, assail, storm, rush, charge plunder, steal from, pillage, loot, rifle, maraud, strip, ransack, sack rob, steal from, hold up, break into, make a raid on search, make a search of, swoop on, make a raid on - 1.1 Quickly and illicitly take something from (a place)
she crept down the stairs to raid the pantry Example sentencesExamples - I guess there was only one thing to do: ceremoniously raid the fridge.
- While officers were covering the crime scene they discovered that the thieves had also raided the refrigerator for food.
- After being in my thoughts for a while, I decided to raid her fridge.
- Alternatively, please everyone and raid your room mini bar as you watch the Pattaya Mail Channel's latest features.
- When the search party returned they found Brush in the kitchen raiding the fridge.
- Those who don't have their own will raid the store room for tartan shirts to make into kilts.
- If they are not physically attacking them, they are raiding fields for food.
Origin Late Middle English (as a noun): Scots variant of road in the early senses ‘journey on horseback’, ‘foray’. The noun became rare from the end of the 16th century but was revived by Sir Walter Scott; the verb dates from the mid 19th century. abbreviationrādreɪd Computing Redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks, a system for providing greater capacity, faster access, and security against data corruption by spreading data across several disk drives.
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