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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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
Chadwick had learned the activism ropes at Relational Investors, where he worked with longtime rabble-rousers Ralph Whitworth and David Batchelder, who themselves had worked with the corporate raider T. Boone Pickens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Points are earned by tagging opponents, or by stopping the raider.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 21, 2023
He is a distinguished obstetrician and university professor who has turned tomb raider.
From BBC ● May 26, 2023
And Lazlo was surprised by the strength of his gratitude—to be believed, even by a tomb raider from a family of assassins.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Iran, however, could play a cat-and-mouse game with raiders, withdrawing and then returning when the Marines have left.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 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
The oldest of the raiders stepped forward and said, “The gold, the paste, and that baby monk gives us a blessing.”
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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