an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence); "scientists' forays into politics" a sudden short attack briefly enter enemy territory
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
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
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
forays
Türkische aussprache
fôreyz
Aussprache
/ˈfôrāz/ /ˈfɔːreɪz/
Etymologie
[ 'for-"A, 'fOr-, 'fär- ] (verb.) 14th century. Middle English forrayen, from Middle French forrer, from forre fodder; more at FORAGE.