Word.ws English Dictionary

dawn raid

dawn raid noun: an early-morning visit by police or law enforcement with the intention of taking the suspects by surprise.

Noun

dawn raid (plural dawn raids)

  1. An early-morning visit by police or law enforcement with the intention of taking the suspects by surprise.
  2. A sudden rapid acquisition of a company's shares when the stock exchange opens, in preparation for a hostile takeover.

Forms of dawn raid

pluraldawn raids

Questions about dawn raid

What does dawn raid mean?
Dawn raid means an early-morning visit by police or law enforcement with the intention of taking the suspects by surprise.
What part of speech is dawn raid?
Dawn raid is a noun.
What is the plural of dawn raid?
The plural of dawn raid is dawn raids.

Words near dawn raid in the dictionary

  1. dawn patrols
  2. dawn poppies
  3. dawn poppy
  4. dawn prayer
  5. dawn prayers
  6. dawn raid
  7. dawn raids
  8. dawn redwood
  9. dawn redwoods
  10. dawn upon
  11. Dawna

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: dawn raid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “dawn raid.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dawn_raid. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.