Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who makes a raid; one engaged in a hostile or predatory incursion.
Wiktionary
- n. One who engages in a raid; a plunderer.
- n. business A person who takes control of a firm by purchasing a controlling interest of stock.
- n. military A special forces operative; a commando.
- n. military, naval A warship which is light, maneuverable, and fast-moving.
- n. informal A person who uncovers evidence of improper behavior within governmental or private organizations.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. U.S. One who engages in a raid.
WordNet 3.0
- n. someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
- n. a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management
Examples
“And would it matter as the Heavy raider is “flown” by Centurions so it would not be “alive” like the normal raiders and therefore not need the red interior so to speak.”
“Matt Carse, an archaeologist of the most definitely rogueish sort of tomb raider is looking to score, when the discovery of the mythical Sword of Rhiannon catapults him back into time, and into the body of a man well suited to be a barbarian adventurer.”
Superhero Prose Fiction: Eric John Stark - Sea-Kings Of Mars and Otherworldly Stories
“Famed treasure-hunter (in Hollywood, this, along with "tomb raider," is a synonym for "archaeologist") Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage) has just received shocking news: a shady antiquities collector (Ed Harris) has evidence that an ancestor of Gates conspired in the assassination of President Lincoln.”
“I haven’t seen the old series, but that’s definitely a raider from the new series.”
“No offense , but , Megan Fox for tomb raiders LARA CROFT is not a very good idea because once you change the original tomb raider, which is Angelina Jolie then it would feel weird because their is only one original tomb raider and that is ANGELINA JOLIE , WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT ,MEGAN FOX SHOULD NOT BE TOMB RAIDERS LARA CROFT AT ALL.”
“I'm even among that rarefied sub-set within WoW players -- a raider, which is to say, that I get together for several hours every few nights with twenty-four other people scattered across the globe to take on the most difficult encounters the game has to offer.”
“Two days later, when a signal had been received that the German flying-boat "mother ship" Schwabenland was reported in the South Atlantic the staff discussed the possibility of her being the raider; and on 7th October Captain J.W. Clayton, the Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, reported that he was not sure that the raider was the”
“While plans were drawn up in case the raider was a pocket battleship and not just one of the many German merchant ships which had sneaked out of the sanctuary of a South American port and armed herself, the Admiralty signalled to Admiral Lyon and Commodore Harwood that the order recalling the 4th Destroyer Division was cancelled and they were "to be retained in the South Atlantic for the present.”
“However, at the meeting on llth October, Captain Clayton said the evidence of the master of the Clement left little doubt the raider was the”
“The Admiralty had formed the hunting groups; interrogation of the Clement's survivors had established beyond all doubt that the raider was a pocket battleship — apparently, thanks to Langsdorff's sub - terfuge, the”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘raider’.
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Brand Theft Auto
A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
explorer, navigator, frontier, mustang, quest, cougar, sidekick, legend, legacy, ranger, voyager, civic and 266 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
waspiness, upraisers, strainers, sporangia, raspiness, prelatess, methanals, gaspiness, washings, uprisers, upraises, upraiser and 2373 more...
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
Check out reesetee's nice Bad Guys l...arsonist, safecracker, murderer, rapist, getaway man, jewel thief, accomplice, drug dealer, carjacker, gunrunner, industrial spy, human trafficker and 216 more...
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bad guys
black hat, thug, thugz, highwayman, brigand, pirate, corsair, raider, viking, visigoth, vandal, gangster and 46 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Sarastani's Words
tendentious, halcyon, satchel, longstocking, teleological, imprimatur, quiescent, quagmire, milwaukee, raider, raspberry, dichotomy and 13 more...
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Names of Actual Pets I Have Known
With thanks to AbraxasZugzwang for the Aminals list.
je ne sais quoi, frito, stellaluna, stretch, zebedee, caspian wimblewether, shakazulu, finbar, elliott, captain crustacean, filbert, pfeffer and 33 more...
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