home invasion

1. 1.

   burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home

   Broaderhousebreaking

Questions about home invasion

What does home invasion mean?

home invasion means "burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home".

Is home invasion a common word?

home invasion is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.