RAIDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does raider mean? 

• RAIDER (noun)
  The noun RAIDER has 2 senses:

1. someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

2. a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management

  Familiarity information: RAIDER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAIDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

despoiler; freebooter; looter; pillager; plunderer; raider; spoiler

Hypernyms ("raider" is a kind of...):

stealer; thief (a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it)

Domain category:

war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "raider"):

buccaneer; pirate; sea robber; sea rover (someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation)

Derivation:

raid (enter someone else's territory and take spoils)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("raider" is a kind of...):

corporate investor (a company that invests in (acquires control of) other companies)

Derivation:

raid (take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock)

 Context examples 

Ma foi! you have not seen a drove of Nithsdale raiders on their Galloway nags, or you would not speak of loving them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)