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
One raider said, “I knew it,” under his breath.
From "The Many Assassinations of Samir, the Seller of Dreams" by Daniel Nayeri
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
Carl Icahn and other corporate raiders piled in, and the stock rose by nearly 40% during the week after Bluhdorn’s death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025
Turkish and Turkmen raiders had swept down out of the mountains a couple of years before.
From Slate ● Dec. 15, 2024
It had been raised by King Jon Stark to defend the mouth of the White Knife against raiders from the sea.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
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