Raider

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Raider \Raid"er\ (r[=a]d"[~e]r), n.
     One who engages in a raid. [U.S.]
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  raider
       n 1: someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war) [syn: {plunderer},
             {pillager}, {looter}, {spoiler}, {despoiler}, {freebooter}]
       2: a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by
          buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing
          new management

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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