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单词 raider
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raidern.

Brit. /ˈreɪdə/, U.S. /ˈreɪdər/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: raid v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < raid v. + -er suffix1.
1.
a. A person who raids or mounts a hostile and predatory incursion; a marauder.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > warrior > attacker > [noun] > raider
road-maker1611
overrunnera1657
raider1861
the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > sacker, raider, or looter > [noun]
reavereOE
forayerc1330
cateran1371
ransackerc1390
depopulatorc1440
rover1481
forager1489
river?a1500
riderc1550
wight-rider1569
predour1577
sacker1589
harrier1596
boot-haler1600
marauder1698
poligar1773
skinner1780
looter1860
raider1861
1861 N. Amer. Rev. Aug. 156 The raiders left two of their best ships in the British hands.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 481 Hearkening the raiders call The cattle o'er the meads.
1878 R. Jefferies Gamekeeper at Home 142 There are three kinds of poachers, the local men, the raiders coming in gangs from a distance—and the mouchers.
1918 Stars & Stripes 1 Mar. 2/1 The raiders jumped down among them, and took them all prisoners without a struggle.
1935 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Jan. 7/8 Sergt...Benesch, who led the raiders, said the bookmaking activities were being carried out on the second floor.
1971 M. L. Wax Indian Americans i. 8 They began to appear as equestrian raiders preying upon the towns and mission stations of New Spain.
1998 Daily Star 26 Mar. 25/2 [The] have-a-go hero,..who risked his life wrestling an armed raider to the ground, described No.10 as breathtaking.
b. Stock Market. A person who mounts an aggressive assault on the market, shares, a company, etc.; spec. = corporate raider n. at corporate adj., adv., and n. Compounds 2.
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > type of
profit taker1552
bull1714
bear1718
fund-monger1734
lame duck1806
stag1845
taker-in1852
cornerer1869
wrecker1876
corner-man1881
market-rigger1881
boursocrat1882
offeror1882
ribbon clerk1882
inflater1884
manipulator1888
underwriter1889
kangaroo1896
piker1898
share pusher1898
specialist1900
tailer1900
writer1906
placee1953
corporate raider1955
tippee1961
raider1972
bottom fisher1974
white knight1978
greenmailer1984
1972 Sunday Sun (Brisbane) 16 Apr. 76/1 Cambridge safe from a raider. There will be no takeover.
1979 M. Spillane Erection Set ix. 121 McMillan is strictly a raider. He'll take Barrin Industries apart block by block, pocket the proceeds and thumb his nose at the stockholders.
1996 Business Age June 61/3 Scottish Life turned itself into a mutual life company, buying out the raiders at twice their purchase price.
2. An aircraft on a bombing operation. raiders passed (or past) n. the ‘all clear’ signal given by sirens, etc., after an air raid.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > group or unit on operation > [noun] > bomber force > aircraft on bombing raid
raider1908
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > bomber
raider1908
bomber1917
night bomber1918
dart1925
bomb-dropper1928
flying boxcar1932
bombing plane1934
bomber aircraft1935
medium bomber1935
dive-bomber1937
heavy1943
nuisance raider1944
shuttle bomber1944
atomic bomber1945
interdictor1965
stealth1979
1908 H. G. Wells War in Air viii. 248 He is now in the act of bombarding the chief manufacturing city..by means of three raider airships.
1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings ii. iii. 258 Certainly they do not include speculation about the men who man the raiders.
1940 New Statesman 19 Oct. 372/1 The ‘Raiders Passed’ went and the tens of thousands of East Londoners poured out of the shelters.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 13 June 27 When the ‘raiders past’ had sounded..we emerged, coughing, from our subterranean dens.
1966 A. Powell Soldier's Art ii. 158 ‘That one didn't take long.’.. ‘Another tip-and-run raider,’ said Pilgrim.
2004 Journal (Newcastle) (Nexis) 10 June 3 The raiders flew on to look for secondary targets and one aircraft unloaded a stack of three bombs on Beamish.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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