raider
Americannoun
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raiders
plural
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a person or thing that raids.
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a commando, ranger, or the like, specially trained to participate in military raids.
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a light, fast warship, aircraft, etc., used in such a raid.
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a person who seizes control of a company, as by secretly buying stock and gathering proxies.
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Informal. a person who works within an organization for the purpose of gathering evidence of wrongdoing.
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Ford made his name investing in distressed or undervalued banks, often alongside famed corporate raider Ronald Perelman, and then flipping them for a big profit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
By studying clonal raider ants, researchers found that evolution may not have created entirely new brain systems to produce parental behavior.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 1, 2026
"He's a raider, not a builder," says Naples journalist Vincenzo Credendino.
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
Points are earned by tagging opponents, or by stopping the raider.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
A Bedouin raider appeared in front of me.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
Stereotypes of violent Northmen, sailing to slaughter and pillage, long dominated representations of the Viking Age, the period from around 750 to 1050 when Norse raiders and colonists spread throughout Europe and far beyond.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
When corporate raiders took notice of how much revenue medicine generated, it took them a New York minute to invade the marketplace.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 26, 2026
A 2020 Harvard Law School forum pointed to one such wave in the 1980s, when corporate raiders such as Carl Icahn and T. Boone Pickens struck fear into corporate boardrooms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
Turkish and Turkmen raiders had swept down out of the mountains a couple of years before.
From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2024
I could not believe Samir would ever consider a refund, even if he was surrounded by masked desert raiders.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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