单词 | raider |
释义 | raidern. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1861 |
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