Where Does Inroads Come from?

Beginning back in the days of Old English, road referred to an armed hostile incursion made on horseback. (Raid comes from this use of road and also formerly specified incursions on horseback.) Road has lost all of its former violent connotations, and inroad is shedding its as well.

What does the phrase making inroads mean?

Encroach on, advance at another's expense, as in The Japanese rapidly made inroads into the computer-chip market. The noun inroad originally meant “an invasion.” [

What's another word for inroads?

In this page you can discover 10 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for inroad, like: encroachment, invasion, incursion, intrusion, advance, foray, raid, attack, enter and null.