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单词 naders raider
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Nader's raidern.

Brit. /neɪdəz ˈreɪdə/, U.S. /neɪdərz ˈreɪdər/
Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Nader , raider n.
Etymology: < the genitive of the name of Ralph Nader (see Naderism n.) + raider n.
Chiefly U.S.
Originally: a student intern working on the public advocacy campaigns pursued by Nader; an activist or researcher affiliated with campaigns resembling Nader's. Later in extended use: a political supporter of Ralph Nader.
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1969 Capital Times (Madison, Wisconsin) 6 Jan. 4/2 The students..have picked up the nickname of ‘Nader's Raiders’.
1969 Science 21 Nov. 979/3 Nader recruited five young lawyers to serve as staff and this past summer enlisted about 100 students in law, medicine, and political science, called ‘Nader's raiders’ by a friendly press, to help with the investigations.
1974 Jrnl. Black Stud. 4 324 If only the latter diagnosis were correct, then the bad guys could simply be exposed by Nader's Raiders and sent to a special home for wayward journalists.
1989 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 14 Dec. a41 The students are the ‘Nader's Raiders’ of Prague's peaceful revolution.
2000 New Republic 6 Nov. 16/1 There is no Democrat liberal enough to satisfy Nader's Raiders, because their ultimate goal is to replace the Democrats with a new party.
2001 M. Bloomberg in N.Y. Times 24 Oct. d3 Mark Green has been very liberal all of his life. He has never been pro-business... He was consumer affairs. He was Nader's raider.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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