corporate raider

noun

One who carries out corporate raids.

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Meanings

nouncorporate raider (plural corporate raiders)

plural corporate raiders

  1. One who carries out corporate raids.

    He [Carl Icahn] ruthlessly sold TWA assets for cash, and battled unions, earning a reputation as a “corporate raider”. The episode help inspire the character Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street.

    2023 May 28, Antoine Gara, “A star corporate raider brought down to earth”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9
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