Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who makes a raid; one engaged in a hostile or predatory incursion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun U.S. One who engages in a raid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who engages in a
raid ; aplunderer . - noun business A person who takes control of a
firm by purchasing a controlling interest ofstock . - noun military A special forces operative; a
commando . - noun military, naval A
warship which is light,maneuverable , and fast-moving. - noun informal A person who uncovers evidence of
improper behavior within governmental or private organizations.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)
- 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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Examples
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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.
Galactica Raider | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009
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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.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Eric John Stark - Sea-Kings Of Mars and Otherworldly Stories Blue Tyson 2008
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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.
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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.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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I haven’t seen the old series, but that’s definitely a raider from the new series.
Matthew Yglesias » How Popular is the Tea Party Movement? 2010
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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.
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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.
My Secret Life James Maliszewski 2008
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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
Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956
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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."
Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956
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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
Graf Spee Pope, Dudley 1956
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