raider
IPA: rˈeɪdɝ
noun
- One who engages in a raid; a plunderer.
- (business) A person who takes or attempts to take control of a firm against the will of current management by purchasing a controlling interest of stock and acquiring proxies.
- (military) A special forces operative; a commando.
- (military, naval) A warship which is light, maneuverable, and fast-moving.
- A warplane on an air raid.
- A law enforcement official who conducts a raid on a building in search for illicit goods.
- (informal) A person who uncovers evidence of improper behavior within governmental or private organizations.
- A surname from German.
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Examples of "raider" in Sentences
- I haven’t seen the old series, but that’s definitely a raider from the new series.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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."
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