raider Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
    spoiler; looter; despoiler; plunderer; pillager; freebooter.
  2. noun a corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management

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Raid"er noun
Definitions
  1. One who engages in a raid. U.S.

Webster 1913