foray
pronunciation
How to pronounce foray in British English:
UK [ˈfɒreɪ]
How to pronounce foray in American English:
US [ˈfɔreɪ]
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- Noun:
- a sudden short attack
- an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence)
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- Verb:
- steal goods; take as spoils
- briefly enter enemy territory
Word Origin
- foray
- foray: see food
- foray (n.)
- late 14c., "predatory incursion," Scottish, from the verb (14c.), perhaps a back-formation of Middle English forreyer "raider, forager" (mid-14c.), from Old French forrier, from forrer "to forage," from forrage "fodder; foraging; pillaging, looting" (see forage (n.)). Disused by 18c.; revived by Scott. As a verb from 14c.
Example
- 1. The move is google 's latest foray into the telecommunications industry .
- 2. Will the american taxpayer-and voter-countenance yet another american land-based foray into the arab middle east ?
- 3. Over the past year the spotlight has come to fall on china 's aggressive economic foray into africa , where it secures energy stakes while doling out cheap credit .
- 4. The republican contender 's foray did not go smoothly ; but it offered americans a genuine alternative
- 5. Anyway , most of the " russian citizens " in south ossetia and abkhazia had been handed their passports fairly recently , presumably in preparation for this foray .