take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock
search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on
enter someone else's territory and take spoils
search for something needed or desired
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.
To make a raid upon or into; as, two regiments raided the border counties.
