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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

... the captain acknowledged. "Robins is accused of having received a Marconigram of which he took no note, and which he handed to a passenger. He is also accused of attempting to communicate with an enemy raider." ...

— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... Gilderoy a fair contribution ran no risk of losing his sheep or oxen. But evasion was impossible, and the smallest suspicion of falsehood was punished by death. The peaceably inclined paid their toll with regret; the more daring opposed the raider to their miserable undoing; the timid satisfied the utmost exactions of Gilderoy, and deemed themselves fortunate if they left the ...

— A Book of Scoundrels • Charles Whibley

... Mallinson to a sufficiently amusing pitch of indignation, and having hinted his moral that the subjugation of Miss Le Mesurier would be effected only by the raider, Fielding complacently dismissed him and repaired to Beaufort Gardens for lunch. He found Drake upon the doorstep with a hand upon the knocker, and the two ...

— The Philanderers • A.E.W. Mason

... nursing the "duality" theory. When he recovered, fresh misfortunes followed, and finally all the riding asses died. Burton, however, amid it all, managed to do one very humane action. He headed a little expedition against a slave raider, and had the satisfaction of restoring five ...

— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright

... would be too good to be true. But please tell us what you mean by saying it mightn't be so very serious. Mebbe you know of a henroost nearby, where we might find a tough old Dominick fowl that had been overlooked by the raider squads ...

— The Boy Scouts on Belgian Battlefields • Lieut. Howard Payson

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