: one that raids: such as
a
: a fast lightly armed ship operating against merchant shipping
b
: a soldier specially trained for close-range fighting
c
: one that attempts a usually hostile takeover of a business corporation
corporate raiders
Examples of raider in a Sentence
The village needs protection from enemy raiders.
Raiders had emptied the tomb of treasure.
He made his fortune as a corporate raider.
Recent Examples on the Web
Set two-hundred years after atomic armageddon, residents of Vault-Tec’s network of luxury fallout habitats begin to explore the radioactive territory outside their shelters and discover a nightmarish world of militant factions, irradiated creatures, vicious raiders, and feral monsters.
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025
No disrespect to Purnell, who perfectly calibrated Lucy’s intrinsic hopefulness in the first season and slowly begins to curdle it this go-round as Lucy spends more time among ghouls, raiders, cannibals, and various other feuding factions.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2025
Who were these Iron Age sea raiders?
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Dec. 2025
Houses were frequently surrounded by high walls, although these barriers were not always effective against determined predators—Olaudah Equiano and his sister were captured in his native Igboland by a small party of three raiders who jumped over the external wall of his home.
—Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
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Jeff Spry, Space.com, 16 Dec. 2025
No disrespect to Purnell, who perfectly calibrated Lucy’s intrinsic hopefulness in the first season and slowly begins to curdle it this go-round as Lucy spends more time among ghouls, raiders, cannibals, and various other feuding factions.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2025
Who were these Iron Age sea raiders?
—Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 15 Dec. 2025
Houses were frequently surrounded by high walls, although these barriers were not always effective against determined predators—Olaudah Equiano and his sister were captured in his native Igboland by a small party of three raiders who jumped over the external wall of his home.
—Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
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“Raider.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/raider. Accessed 23 Dec. 2025.
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