1.
[syn: plunderer, pillager, looter, spoiler, despoiler, raider, freebooter]
2. a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Raider \Raid"er\ (r[=a]d"[~e]r), n.
One who engages in a raid. [U.S.]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
raider
n 1: someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) [syn:
plunderer, pillager, looter, spoiler, despoiler,
raider, freebooter]
2: a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by
buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new
management
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
25 Moby Thesaurus words for "raider":
aggressor, assailant, assailer, assaulter, attacker, depredator,
despoiler, forager, forayer, freebooter, invader, looter, marauder,
mugger, pillager, plunderer, rapparee, ravager, ravisher, reiver,
rifler, sacker, spoiler, spoliator, wrecker