raiding party

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raiding party (plural raiding parties)

  1. A group of people who band together to make a raid or foray.
    • 2017 August 13, Brandon Nowalk, “Oldtown offers one last game-changing secret as Game Of Thrones goes behind enemy lines (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club[1]:
      It’s surely consequential that Jon has a claim to the throne, whether he knows about it or not, but all of that is overshadowed by his immediate circumstances, which are that Jon Snow is leading a raiding party beyond the Wall to kidnap a wight.
    • 2001, Gil Murray, The Invisible War, page 173:
      In the name of justice and decent beds, we who were cotless formed a raiding party that very night — led by Boombaw, and with DeMal as advance scout.

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