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inroads

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in·road

   [in-rohd]
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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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, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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inroads

see make inroads into.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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