Raider
['reɪdə(r)] or ['redɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management.
Edited by Adrian--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) One who engages in a raid.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Invader.[2]. Forager, BUMMER.
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Examples
- I recommend the recent spectacle in New York where the most sensational raider of gambling houses has turned out to be in crooked alliance with the gamblers. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There was no sea life, there were no pirate raiders, no strange traders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Guerillas and raiders, seemingly emboldened by Forrest's operations, were also very active in Kentucky. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They appeared as pirates, raiders, and traders both upon the Caspian and the Black Sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the barbaric Greek herdsmen raiders came southward into a world whose civilization was already an old story. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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