Definitions for raider

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raider raid·er

Spelling: [rey-der]

IPA: /ˈreɪ dər/

Raider is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in raider (adeirr).

Definitions for raider

noun

1. a person or thing that raids.
2. a commando, ranger, or the like, specially trained to participate in military raids.
3. a light, fast warship, aircraft, etc., used in such a raid.
4. a person who seizes control of a company, as by secretly buying stock and gathering proxies.
5. Informal. a person who works within an organization for the purpose of gathering evidence of wrongdoing.

Origin of raider

First recorded in 1860-65; raid + -er¹

Examples for raider

But no other raider was in sight; there was no other “nodal centre” of gun-fire and searchlights.

"We called her 'the raider,'" says this friend, who was also a warm admirer.

He seemed to have known from the first that the raider would run that way.

Anton had been with me three years when this raider appeared.

She steamed towards the raider, which made off at full speed.

I am a minister's daughter, Mr. raider, I can't talk about people's troubles.

"Boy Scouts of the Sea," watch us do our partIf a raider or a sub.

Soon, he would be above them all, and perhaps above the raider.

Then she sat down at Mr. raider's desk, and drew a pad of paper toward her.

But very few did so, however, and these were wholly confined to the raider crowd.