Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - foray

(forays) 1. If you make a foray into a new or unfamiliar type of activity, you start to become involved in it. Emporio Armani, the Italian fashion house, has made a discreet foray into furnishings. ...her first forays into politics. N-COUNT: oft poss N, usu N into n 2. You can refer to a short journey that you make as a foray if it seems to involve excitement or risk, for example because it is to an unfamiliar place or because you are looking for a particular thing. Most guests make at least one foray into the town... N-COUNT: usu N into/to n 3. If a group of soldiers make a foray into enemy territory, they make a quick attack there, and then return to their own territory. These base camps were used by the PKK guerrillas to make forays into Turkey. = raid N-COUNT: oft N into n