Raid Meaning
/ɹeɪd/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
nounAn attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
Sentence Examples
The bandits made a raid on the village.
They shot down two enemy planes during the raid.
The kids tend to raid the fridge when they get home from school.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The police carried out a ____ on the warehouse to catch the criminals.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The police conducted a dawn ____ on the warehouse and seized a large quantity of stolen goods.
Word Origin & History
From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Marauding chief! his sole delight / The moonlight raid, the morning fight."
— 1805, Walter Scott, “Canto Fourth”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 109:
"There are permanent conquests, temporary occupation, and occasional raids."
— 1872, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Biology, volume 1, page 315:
"For Lothian and Borders Police, the early-morning raid had come at the end one of biggest investigations carried out by the force, which had originally presented a dossier of evidence on the murder of Jodi Jones to the Edinburgh procurator-fiscal, William Gallagher, on 25 November last year."
— 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, in The Scotsman:
"The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians."
— 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, in BBC Sport:
"Now that Twitch is making raids an official part of the platform, however, some streamers think the new feature will make it easier to participate in the positive aspects of raiding."
— 2017 November 3, Ethan Gach, “What Twitch's New Raiding System Means For Streamers”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2017:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The police carried out a ____ on the warehouse to catch the criminals.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The police conducted a dawn ____ on the warehouse and seized a large quantity of stolen goods.