Usually means: Progress made into another's territory.
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  1. inroad: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. inroad: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inroad: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inroad: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. inroad: Wiktionary
  8. inroad: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. inroad: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. inroad: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Inroad, inroad: Dictionary.com
  12. inroad: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Inroad: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. inroad: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. inroad: Rhymezone
  16. inroad: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. inroad: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. inroad: Free Dictionary
  19. inroad: Mnemonic Dictionary
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(Note: See inroading as well.)

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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