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Raider

noun

Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war). Synonyms: despoiler, freebooter, looter, pillager, plunderer, spoiler.

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

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"Raider" Quotes from Famous Books

... to grief in Ohio. I trust he may be captured himself. The papers say Basil Duke is a prisoner. If so, the spirit of the great raider is in our hands, and it matters but little, perhaps, what becomes ...

— The Citizen-Soldier - or, Memoirs of a Volunteer • John Beatty

... Steaming southward, the raider made her next and last appearance on the morning of November 9 off the British cable and wireless station on the Cocos Islands. As she approached, word was promptly cabled to London, Adelaide, and Singapore, and—more profitably—was ...

— A History of Sea Power • William Oliver Stevens and Allan Westcott

... fact the Confederate navy never had but one real man-of-war, the famous Merrimac; and she was a mere razee, cut down for a special purpose, and too feebly engined to keep the sea. Even the equally famous Alabama was only a raider, never meant for action with a fleet. Over three hundred officers left the United States Navy for the South; but, as in the case of the Army, they were followed by very few men. The total personnel of the regular Confederate navy never exceeded four thousand at any one time. The irregular ...

— Captains of the Civil War - A Chronicle of the Blue and the Gray, Volume 31, The - Chronicles Of America Series • William Wood

Words linked to "Raider" : warfare, sea robber, buccaneer, sea rover, despoiler, looter, stealer, corporate investor, pirate, plunderer, pillager, raid, war, thief