0 a short period of time being involved in an activity that is different from and outside the range of a usual set of activities:
1 a short visit, especially with a known purpose:
2 the act of an army suddenly and quickly entering the area belonging to the enemy in order to attack them or steal their supplies
3 a brief attempt at or involvement in an activity outside a person’s or organization’s usual range of activities:
4 a short involvement in an activity, an area, or a market that is different from a person or company's usual one:
a foray into sth This is the company's first foray into the US market.
The supermarket has made a foray into the financial services market.
a brief/disastrous/successful foray
Reclusive, with a natural inclination to string-pulling behind the scenes he, nevertheless, occasionally forayed into the world of civic duty.
Pels writes as an anthropologist but his work exhibits none of the failings that some anthropological forays into ' history ' can bring.
There were earlier forays into game theory with him.
In spite of their ascent, men of science quickly found their forays into the courtroom exceedingly frustrating.
The idiom is essentially pentatonic major, though with occasional and highly telling forays into the realms of rarefied chromaticism, and 'dissonance'.
Such forays can be both fruitful, in terms of the conclusions brought to light, and entertaining.
Weanling rats, in their early forays outside the nest, tend to follow other, older rats.
In this manner, a variety of insights make for some rather stimulating and cutting-edge forays.
