(=attack)embuscade f
→ A policeman was shot dead in an ambush.
to wait in ambush, to lie in ambush [soldiers, police, gunmen] se tenir en embuscade
→ The bus was taking people home when the gunmen, lying in ambush, opened fire.
to wait in ambush for sb, to lie in ambush for sb [soldiers, police, gunmen] tendre une embuscade à qn
→ the Russian army was waiting in ambush for the Chechen fighters

(fig)
to wait in ambush [journalists, press, reporters]
to lie in ambush se tenir en embuscade
→ Switzerland's Foreign Minister wanted his envoy to take a lower profile, but the Swiss tabloid press was lying in ambush.
to wait in ambush for sb, to lie in ambush for sb [journalists, press, reporters] tendre une embuscade à qn

[soldiers, police, gunmen] tendre une embuscade à
→ Rebels ambushed and killed 10 soldiers.

[journalists, press, reporters] tendre une embuscade à
→ The outgoing chairman was ambushed by reporters after this year's annual meeting

• ambush n. embuscade
• ambush v. prendre en embuscade
• to lie in ambush for sb exp. tendre une embuscade à qn
• to wait in ambush for sb exp. tendre une embuscade à qn
• to lie in ambush exp. se tenir en embuscade
• to wait in ambush exp. se tenir en embuscade

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