raid

English

From Scots raid (obsolete after Middle English but revived in the 19th-century by Walter Scott), from Old English rād ( > English road).

raid (plural raids)

A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.
- 2004 April 15, “Morning swoop in hunt for Jodi's killer”, The Scotsman:
  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.
(online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
(sports) An attacking movement.
- 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, BBC Sport:
  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.

An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering

Arabic: غارة (ar) (ghaara) f, غزوة (ar) (gházwa) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 襲擊 (cmn), 袭击 (cmn) (xíjí)
Danish: razzia (da) c
Finnish: ratsia (fi), rynnäkkö (fi)
French: raid (fr) m, razzia (fr) f
German: Razzia (de) f, Überfall (de) m
Greek: επιδρομή (el) (epidromí) f, καταδρομή (el) (katadromí) f, έφοδος (el) (éfodos) f
Hungarian: razzia (hu)