| 单词 | dawn raid |
| 释义 | dawn raidWord family noundawn chorusdawn raidverbdawn Military ˌdawn ˈraid noun [countableC] PMan attack or operation by soldiers or police that happens very early in the morning 〔军队或警方的〕凌晨突袭，拂晓袭击 Examples from the Corpus dawn raid• They also recovered some stolen ammunition during a dawn raid on this flat in Notting Hill.• Seven pistols were discovered under a bed in a dawn raid on a flat.• A dawn raid by about 200 heavily armed law officers bagged more than 30 members and associates of the white-supremacist prison gang.• Almost his first action was a post-election dawn raid in July 1983 on departmental budgets. From Longman Business Dictionary dawn raidˌdawn ˈraid noun [countableC] FINANCE when a company suddenly buys a large number of shares in another company at the start of trading on a stock exchange, in an attempt to get control of it A dawn raid gives the board of the target company little time to react or advise its shareholders. dawn raidˌdawn ˈraidFINANCE an occasion when someone buys a lot of shares in a company in the first few minutes of the day’s trading, in an attempt to get control of it → raidA dawn raid allows the build-up of a significant stake in a target company within a matter of hours, giving the board of the target company little time to react or advise its shareholders. |
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