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RAIDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
Synonyms:
despoiler; freebooter; looter; pillager; plunderer; raider; spoiler
Classified under:
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)
