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in⋅road

  [in-rohd]
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–noun
1. a damaging or serious encroachment: inroads on our savings.
2. a sudden hostile or predatory incursion; raid; foray.
Origin:
1540–50; in- 1 + road
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in·road   (ĭn'rōd')   
n.  
  1. A hostile invasion; a raid.
  2. An advance, especially at another's expense; an encroachment. Often used in the plural: Foreign products have made inroads into the American economy.

[in1 + road, riding, raid (obsolete).]
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Inroad

In"road`\, n. The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment.

The loss of Shrewsbury exposed all North Wales to the daily inroads of the enemy. --Clarendon.

With perpetual inroads to alarm, Though inaccessible, his fatal throne. --Milton.

Syn: Invasion; incursion; irruption. See Invasion.

Inroad

In*road"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inroaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Inroading.] To make an inroad into; to invade. [Obs.]

The Saracens . . . conquered Spain, inroaded Aquitaine. --Fuller.
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inroad 
1548, "hostile incursion, raid, foray," from in- "in," second element is road in the obsolete sense of "riding;" related to raid.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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