单词 | dawn raid |
释义 | dawn raid Word forms: dawn raids 1. countable noun If police officers carry out a dawn raid, they go to someone's house very early in the morning to search it or arrest them. Thousands of pounds worth of drugs were seized in dawn raids yesterday. 2. countable noun If soldiers carry out a dawn raid, they attack enemy soldiers very early in the morning. 3. countable noun If a person or company carries out a dawn raid, they try to buy a large number of a company's shares at the start of a day's trading, especially because they want to buy the whole company. [business] They acquired 11.2 per cent of the company in a dawn raid on Monday. |
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