foray
for|ay /f'ɒreɪ, AM f'ɔːreɪ/ (forays)
1 [N-COUNT] oft poss N, usu N into n
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.
2 [N-COUNT] usu N into/to n
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...
3 [N-COUNT] oft N into n
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
1 [N-COUNT] oft poss N, usu N into n
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.
2 [N-COUNT] usu N into/to n
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...
3 [N-COUNT] oft N into n
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