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RAID

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What does RAID mean?

noun

  1. A quick hostile or predatory incursion or invasion in a battle.
  2. An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering.
  3. An attacking movement.
More meanings (8)

noun

  1. An activity initiated at or towards the end of a live broadcast by the broadcaster that sends its viewers to a different broadcast, primarily intended to boost the viewership of the receiving broadcaster. This is frequently accompanied by a message in the form of a hashtag that is posted in the broadcast's chat by the viewers.
  2. A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.
  3. An event involving a group of users, often using bots and scripts, who join a server to harm it or harass its members.
  4. Acronym of Redundant Array of Inexpensive (or Independent) Disks.
  5. Initialism of risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.

verb

  1. To engage in a raid against.
  2. To lure from another; to entice away from.
  3. To indulge oneself by taking from.
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IPA pronunciation

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While this was going on, the two little boys were playing in the back yard, and saw nothing of the raid.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135
Large loss of life, due to a building being struck, was also the feature of the moonlight raid on September 4.
William J. ClaxtonThe mastery of the airProject Gutenberg ebook #777
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The discharge was followed immediately by a bombardment with H.E. shrapnel and gas shell, and a raid was attempted south of Givenchy.
Victor LefebureThe Riddle of the Rhine: Chemical Strategy in Peace and WarProject Gutenberg ebook #1272
Once flinch from this creative authority of man, and the whole courageous raid which we call civilization wavers and falls to pieces.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) ChestertonWhat's Wrong with the WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #1717
The jaguar now and then made a raid amongst the crowd of boys who were dressed as deer, goats, and so forth.
Henry Walter BatesThe Naturalist on the River AmazonsProject Gutenberg ebook #2440