inroad

Converse of object

• make: Hyundai, has been making inroads into the Iraqi bus market, having sold 425 vehicles last year.
• provide: As stated before, it also provides an inroad for the other to enter our own sphere.
• see: However, in certain disciplines within science we are not seeing the inroads we should like.
• offer: They offer special inroads into the mystery of life.

Preposition: into

• backlog: One of the aims of the project is to make inroads into the backlog of cataloging from which most archive services suffer.
• market: Hyundai, has been making inroads into the Iraqi bus market, having sold 425 vehicles last year.
• problem: Cattle on these gentle slopes will not make inroads into this management problem.
• sector: Open Source is on the Map Open source software is making inroads into the voluntary sector.
• world: Motivation for the article Linux has already made quite a few inroads into the corporate world.
• poverty: Second, we have begun to make serious inroads into the poverty caused by low income.

Adjective modifier

• significant: To make significant inroads into the key competitor's core market.
• substantial: The Great British Cookery Paradox is evidence that supermarkets have made substantial inroads in undermining the nation's inclination to cook.
• serious: Despite these serious inroads into the family's finances Lord Bath has not spared himself to improve the existing Longleat holding.
• considerable: Considerable inroads have been made into reducing primary class sizes.
• huge: Huge inroads toward tackling global poverty have already been achieved.
• further: Record numbers book on the web The internet is making further inroads into holiday sales with record numbers booking online.

Preposition: on

• principle: If Addis establishes such a rule it is an inroad on traditional principles of contract law.

Preposition: in

• market: Now wines from the New World are also making inroads in the local market as well.
• area: With Steve's help, we started to make inroads in these areas with a major pay negotiation win.

Preposition: of

• Scot: Pennant thinks that it was originally " a watch tower to mark the inroads of the Scots in their naval inroads.