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corporate raider

noun

  1. a person who seizes control of a company, as by secretly buying stock and gathering proxies.

corporate raider

noun

  1. finance a person or organization that acquires a substantial holding of the shares of a company in order to take it over or to force its management to act in a desired way

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Word History and Origins

Origin of corporate raider1

First recorded in 1985–90

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Example Sentences

Icahn never liked—actually viscerally hated—the term corporate raider.

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