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raft (2)

Flag: gbEnglishOxford New American Dictionary
raft2 /raft, ræft /
▸ noun a large amount of something:
a raft of government initiatives.
– ORIGIN mid 19th century : alteration of dialect raff ‘abundance’ (perhaps of Scandinavian origin), by association with raft1 in the sense ‘floating mass’.