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inroad

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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).]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

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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