sortie

1. (military, also attributively and figuratively)Examples: "The events of these sieges show that a bold and vigorous sortie in force might carry destruction through every part of a besieger's approaches, where the guard is injudiciously disposed and ill commanded; but that if due precautions have been observed in forming the approaches and posting the defenders, any sortie from a besieged place must be checked with loss in their advance, when the approaches are still distant; or when the approaches are near, should a sortie succeed in pushing into them by a sudden rush, the assailants must inevitably be driven out again in a moment, with terrible slaughter."alsoattributivefiguratively

2. (military, also attributively and figuratively)Examples: "Their aircraft had no belly gunners and were at the mercy of Luftwaffe fighters that attacked from below. Whenever they lifted off on a mission, they departed with the knowledge that this sortie could easily be their last."; "They are vastly outnumbered: Russia is believed to fly some 200 sorties per day while Ukraine flies five to 10."alsoattributivefiguratively

3. (by extension)Examples: "‘I'm just not interested in the whole class crap that seems to needle you and all the tax-payers,’ the teenager tells some ‘pre-historic monster’ of an adult, with a ‘cool’ snobbishness which MacInnes's companion on many of his Notting Hill sorties, the late Professor Richard Wollheim, compared to the ‘Sang Froid’ of Baudelaire's Dandy as he cruised through Fin-de-Siecle Paris with a similar sensibility, or lack of it."; "Finally, the astronauts will descend to the lunar surface. After their sortie on the moon, they'll return to the orbital station."broadly

4. (by extension)broadlyfiguratively

5. (by extension)Examples: "Kai Johansen made a sortie down the right and, running out of ideas, tried a shot from more than 20 yards."broadlyfiguratively

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