The Collaborative International Dictionary
corporate raider \corporate raider\ n. (Finance) a person who purchases or attempts to purchase a controlling interest in a publicly-traded company against the wishes of the current management.
Note: such a buyout is caled a hostile takeover.
Syn: buyout specialist, takeover artist.
Usage examples of "corporate raider".
Within three years he had parlayed his discovery into a Fortune 500 company and added the feather of corporate raider to his cap.
Because she thought she'd be facing a corporate raider this morning, she'd dressed to match: a dark green Dior skirted suit with matching pumps.
Used to be in upper management for a large corporation, before it got taken over by a corporate raider.
He was one of your junior execs when you were an active corporate raider, wasn't he?
The Headhunter masqueraded as a corporate raider, slowly making his way through a list of companies with the worst records in environmental and social malfeasance.
He strode into the service area at the head of first class like a corporate raider mounting a hostile takeover.