raid

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raid/reɪd/

▶noun

• 1 a rapid surprise attack on people or premises.

• 2 a surprise visit by police to arrest suspects or seize illicit goods.

• 3 Stock Exchange a hostile attempt to buy a controlling interest in the shares of a company.

▶verb

• 1 conduct a raid on.

• 2 quickly and illicitly take something from (a place).

– derivatives
raider noun.

– origin ME: Scots var. of road in the early senses ‘journey on horseback, foray’.

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RAID

▶abbreviation Computing redundant array of independent (or inexpensive) disks, a system for providing greater capacity, security, etc. by using several disk drives.