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Definitions: Raider |
RaiderNoun1. Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war). 2. A corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "raider" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Economics | A person who attempts to gain control of a company through a takeover, by purchasing a controlling interest and voting in new management. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A person, group or company triggering a hostile takeover. Often a specialist in exploiting undervalued asset situations and in takeover bids. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: RaiderSynonyms: despoiler (n), freebooter (n), looter (n), pillager (n), plunderer (n), spoiler (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Raider |
| English words defined with "raider": greenmail. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "raider": corporate raider. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Raider" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (raider). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I guess a raider like you would be no match like Ganz. (48 Hrs.; writing credit: Roger Spottiswoode ; Walter Hill) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) Submarine Raider (1942) Mystery Sea Raider (1940) The Oil Raider (1934) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| "Raider" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 94.59% of the time. "Raider" is used about 111 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 94.59% | 105 | 31,781 |
| Noun (proper) | 5.41% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 111 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "raider" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Raider | Last name | 200 | 39,505 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "raider": air raider ♦ corporate raider. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "raider": lone-raider. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tomb raider | 7,730 |
oakland raider | 2,346 |
raider | 1,547 |
nude raider | 922 |
paul revere and the raider | 159 |
raider of the lost ark | 138 |
crypt raider | 135 |
pantie raider | 135 |
raider tomb wallpaper | 114 |
cyc raider | 112 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "raider"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | sulmues (aggressive, aggressor, assailant, assault, assaulter, attacker, offensive, storm trooper), keqbërës (culprit, felonious, hoodlum, lag, malefactor, wrongdoer). (various references) | |
Arabic | طائرة مقاتلة (fighter), جندي كماندو, المعتدي (aggressor, assaulter, offender, wrongdoer), الغاز مهاجم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | участник в нахлуване, участник в нападение, нашественик (invader), нападател (aggressor, assailant, forward, hold-up-man, hooker, lineman, linesman, mugger). (various references) | |
Chinese | 入侵者 (intruder). (various references) | |
Czech | nájezdník (invader), lupiè (burglar, freebooter, harpy, hold-up-man, plunderer, robber, thug), útoèník (aggressor, assailant, attacker). (various references) | |
Dutch | raider (black knight, corporate raider), overvaller. (various references) | |
Farsi | یورش برنده , مهاجم (Aggressive, Aggressor, Invader, Offensive). (various references) | |
Finnish | yritysvaltaaja vihamielisessä valtausyrityksessä, yritysvaltaaja (corporate raider). (various references) | |
French | raider. (various references) | |
German | Raider (black knight, corporate raider), räuber (bandit, brigand, bruiser, highwayman, hijacker, marauder, predator, predatory fish, robber, robbers), plünderer (depredator, depredators, despoiler, looter, marauder, plunderer, predator), kaperschiff (privateer), kaper (caper), gangster (bandit, gangster, gangsters, gunman, hood, hoodlum, mobster, racketeer, thug), einbrecher (burglar, burglars, burgler, housebreaker, picklock, shop breaker), bankräuber (bank robber), Übernehmer (assignee, corporate raider, transferee), überfallflugzeug. (various references) | |
Greek | επιτιθέμενη εταιρία (corporate raider), επιδρομέασ (aggressor, assailant, invader), επιδρομεύσ (invader). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מתקיף (aggressor, assailant, attacker, belligerent, offensive), איש קומ "ו (commando). (various references) | |
Hungarian | támadó (aggressive, aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker, diatribe, invader, invasive, offensive), fosztogató (depredator, harrier, looter, marauder, pilferer, pillaging, predatory, reaver, reiver, spoiler). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penggeledah. (various references) | |
Italian | rapinatore (bandit, robber), raider, scalatore (climber, corporate raider), predatore finanziario (corporate raider), bandito (bandit, brigand, desperado, gangster, gunman, highwayman, outlaw, ruffian). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 侵入者 (intruder, invader, trespasser). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | し"にゅうしゃ (intruder, invader, trespasser). (various references) | |
Korean | 침입자 (intruder). (various references) | |
Manx | soiagher (accepter, attacker), cragheyder (despoiler, filibuster, looter, mass murderer, predator, slaughterer, vandal). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aiderray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | iniciador de uma OPA hostil (corporate raider), corsário (caper, corsair, marplot, pirate, privateering, rover), assaltante (aggressor, assailant, assaulter, burglar, robber). (various references) | |
Romanian | participant la o incursiune, avion care face un raid. (various references) | |
Russian | участник налета, рейдер. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | napadač (aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker). (various references) | |
Spanish | invasor (invader, invasive). (various references) | |
Swedish | raider (corporate raider), kommandosoldat, haj (corporate raider, shark), deltagare i räd. (various references) | |
Thai | ผู้เข้าจู่โจมทันที. (various references) | |
Turkish | düşman ticaret gemilerine saldıran savaş gemisi, akıncı (franc-tireur), çapulcu (depredator, freebooter, looter, marauder, plunderer, swag man). (various references) | |
Ukranian | учасник нальоту, рейдер. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | phi công đi oanh tạc máy bay đi oanh tạc kẻ cướp, người đi bố ráp, giặc. (various references) | |
Welsh | herwr (bandit, brigand, outlaw, scout). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "raider": raiders. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "raider": braider, upbraider. (additional references) | |
Words containing "raider": braiders, upbraiders. (additional references) | |
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"Raider" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aridar, Armieder, Creider, dagidder, faider, Pradier, rabide, Rabinder, raeda, raeder, Rahier, Raibeirt, raide, raiden, raifer, railer, rainer, raita, raite, raiter, rauder, Rayden, redear, Reidel, reider, Reidij, resider, rhaeadr, Rhaeder, rhider, Riada, ridere, Ridiger, Rieder, Rigidex, riker, roader, rodiaei, roide, Ruadbern, Ruaidhri, ruide, Ruiter, traider, tresidder. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "raider" (pronounced rā"der) |
| 4 | r ā" d er | grader, trader. |
| 3 | -ā" d er | crusader, evader, fader, invader, lader, nadir, seder, shader, Spader, wader. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: arider. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-i-r-r" | |
-1 letter: aider, aired, airer, darer, deair, direr, drear, drier, irade, rared, redia, rider. | |
-2 letters: aide, arid, dare, dear, dire, idea, ired, raid, rare, read, rear, ride. | |
-3 letters: aid, air, are, die, ear, era, err, ire, rad, red, rei, ria, rid. | |
-4 letters: ad, ae, ai, ar, de, ed, er, id, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-i-r-r" | |
+1 letter: acrider, admirer, arrived, braider, carried, drainer, hardier, harried, lardier, married, parried, raiders, randier, rapider, readier, tardier, tarried. | |
+2 letters: abridger, admirers, adroiter, airdrome, braiders, darklier, diarrhea, disarmer, draffier, draftier, draggier, drainers, drawlier, dreamier, drearier, drearies, drearily, gerardia, hardwire, infrared, marrieds, ordainer, parridge, quarried, rapiered, rarefied, rarified, reordain, repaired, reraised, serranid, tawdrier, trihedra, wiredraw. | |
+3 letters: abridgers, airdromes, arborized, arraigned, barricade, brigadier, cabdriver, cartridge, cedarbird, coriander, curarized, debarring, despairer, diarrheal, diarrheas, diarrheic, diarrhoea, disarmers, disbarred, discarder, disgracer, disregard, disrepair, draperies, dreariest, firebrand, firedrake, fireguard, gerardias, grandsire, grenadier, hardwired, hardwires, hyperarid, infrareds, instarred, interlard, irradiate, irredenta, irridenta, irrigated, irritated, ordainers, parricide, parridges, partridge, preordain, recarried, redrawing, refrained, regarding, regrading, remainder, remarried, reordains, reprimand, reradiate, rereading, residuary, retarding, retrained, rewarding, riprapped, riverward, ruralised, ruralized, serranids, shikarred, threadier, traceried, trailered, trihedral, unmarried, unreadier, upbraider, waterbird, wiredrawn, wiredraws. | |
+4 letters: adrenergic, advertiser, airbrushed, airdropped, airproofed, arbitraged, arbitrated, barbarized, barricaded, barricades, bombardier, breadfruit, brigadiers, budgerigar, cabdrivers, carburised, carburized, cartridges, cedarbirds, cordillera, cordwainer, corianders, corrigenda, crispbread, denigrator, derailleur, despairers, diarrhetic, diarrhoeas, dinnerware, disarrange, disarrayed, discarders, discharger, disgracers, disparager, dispraiser, disregards, disrepairs, distrainer, draughtier, drawbridge, dreariness, drivetrain, eradicator, fairleader, fiberboard, fibreboard, firebrands, firedrakes, fireguards, foreordain, fratricide, fundraiser, garrisoned, grandsires, grenadiers, harborside, heraldries, hereditary, hitherward, intergrade, interlards, irradiance, irradiated, irradiates, irredentas, irridentas, jardiniere, linerboard, madreporic, martyrized, misaverred, miscarried, nonadmirer, ordinarier, ordinaries, overdaring, parricides, partridges, pericardia, preordains, presidiary, pretrained, radiometer, radiometry, railroaded, railroader, randomizer, reaccredit, reacquired, readership, readorning, reaffirmed, reboarding, redarguing, redrafting, redreaming, reiterated, remainders, reordained, reprimands, repudiator, reradiated, reradiates, rereadings, restrained, retailored, retreading, ribaldries, ringbarked, ringleader, riverwards, rubricated, tardigrade, traditores, transpired, trihedrals, triradiate, triturated, unmarrieds, upbraiders, wardenries, waterbirds, weaverbird, wiredrawer, wirehaired, wizardries. | |
+5 letters: adversarial, adversaries, advertisers, advertorial, aggrandizer, arteritides, arthritides, arthrodesis, barricadoed, barricadoes, birdbrained, birdwatcher, blackbirder, bombardiers, breadfruits, breadwinner, budgerigars, burglarized, camaraderie, caricatured, charbroiled, comraderies, cordilleran, cordilleras, cordwainers, cordwainery, counterraid, crispbreads, daredevilry, decarburize, demoralizer, denigrators, denigratory, depolarizer, depreciator, derailleurs, deteriorate, diarthroses, dimercaprol, dinnerwares, dipterocarp, directorate, directorial, disapprover, disarranged, disarranges, dischargers, discourager, disparagers, dispraisers, disregarded, dissertator, distrainers, doctrinaire, drawbridges, drillmaster, drivetrains, dromedaries, dundrearies, eradicators, fairleaders, fiberboards, fibreboards, fingerboard, foolhardier, foreordains, fraternized, fratricides, fundraisers, gendarmerie, gingerbread, gormandizer, gradiometer, hairbreadth, hairdresser, handwringer, harbingered, harebrained, hindquarter, horseradish, interdealer, intergraded, intergrades, interlarded, interstrand, intradermal, ironhearted, irradiances, irradiative, irradicable, jardinieres, labradorite, linerboards, madreporian, madreporite, microreader, nonadmirers, ordinariest, overdrawing, overpraised, overtrading, overtrained, pericardial, pericardium, philanderer, predicatory, preordained, preprandial, privateered, radiometers, radiometric, radiotracer, railroaders, randomizers, reaccredits, readerships, reappraised, recordation, regularized, rehardening, rehydrating, rehydration, remaindered, reordaining, reorganized, repatriated, repolarized, reprimanded, repudiators, reradiating, reradiation, respreading, retardation, rethreading, revalorized, rewardingly, ringleaders, ringstraked, rudimentary, shadberries, shorthaired, tardigrades, tarradiddle, thitherward, transcribed, trifurcated, underrating, unirrigated, unrewarding, varicolored, veratridine, weaverbirds, whitherward, windbreaker, wiredrawers, wiredrawing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 61 69 64 65 72 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. .- .. -.. . .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100001 01101001 01100100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R a i d e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0061 0069 0064 0065 0072 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)526775707184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Usage Frequency 8. Names: Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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