Usually means: Progress made into previously uncharted areas.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. inroads: Merriam-Webster
  2. inroads: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inroads: Collins English Dictionary
  4. inroads: Vocabulary.com
  5. Inroads, inroads: Wordnik
  6. inroads: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. inroads: Wiktionary
  8. inroads: Dictionary.com
  9. inroads: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Inroads (album), Inroads (organization), Inroads: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. inroads: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Inroads: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Inroad)

noun:  (military, also figuratively) An advance into enemy territory, an attempted invasion; an encroachment, an incursion.
noun:  (figuratively, usually in the plural) Often followed by in, into, or on: initial progress made toward accomplishing a goal or solving a problem.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To make advances or incursions.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To make an inroad into (something).
noun:  A barangay of Aurora, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines.
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