This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

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n. A surprise attack by a small armed force.

n. A sudden forcible entry into a place by police: a raid on a gambling den.

n. An entrance into another's territory for the purpose of seizing goods or valuables.

n. A predatory operation mounted against a competitor, especially an attempt to lure away the personnel or membership of a competing organization.

n. An attempt to seize control of a company, as by acquiring a majority of its stock.

n. An attempt by speculators to drive stock prices down by coordinated selling.

v. To make a raid on.

verb-intransitive. To conduct a raid or participate in one.

n. A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.

n. 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.

n. A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.

n. An attacking movement.

v. To engage in a raid.

v. To steal from; pillage

v. To lure from another; to entice away from

v. To indulge oneself by taking from

n. A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.

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

v. To make a raid upon or into.

n. A hostile or predatory incursion; especially, an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a swooping assault for injury or plunder; a foray.

n. Hence A sudden onset in general; an irruption for or as if for assault or seizure; a descent made in an unexpected or undesired manner: as, a police raid upon a gambling-house.

To go upon a raid; engage in a sudden hostile or disturbing incursion, foray, or descent.

To make a raid or hostile attack upon; encroach upon by foray or incursion.

Hence To attack in any way; affect injuriously by sudden or covert assault or invasion of any kind: as, to raid a gambling-house.

v. search for something needed or desired

n. a sudden short attack

n. an attempt by speculators to defraud investors

v. search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on

v. take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock

v. enter someone else's territory and take spoils

"I don't know if I'd use the term raid, but certain things are being done, operations by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as we speak."

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