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