Pirate vs. Raider — What's the Difference?

One who commits or practices piracy at sea.

A surprise attack by a small armed force.

One who makes use of or reproduces the work of another without authorization.

A sudden forcible entry into a place by police

One who illegally intercepts or uses radio or television signals, especially one who operates an illegal television or radio station.

An entrance into another's territory for the purpose of seizing goods or valuables.

To attack and rob (a ship at sea).

A predatory operation mounted against a competitor, especially an attempt to lure away the personnel or membership of a competing organization.

To take (something) by piracy.

An attempt to seize control of a company, as by acquiring a majority of its stock.

To make use of or reproduce (another's work) without authorization.

An attempt by speculators to drive stock prices down by coordinated selling.

To act as a pirate; practice piracy.

To make a raid on.

A criminal who plunders at sea; commonly attacking merchant vessels, though often pillaging port towns.

To conduct a raid or participate in one.

An armed ship or vessel that sails for the purpose of plundering other vessels.

One who engages in a raid; a plunderer.

(by extension) One who breaks intellectual property laws by reproducing protected works without permission.

(business) A person who takes or attempts to take control of a firm against the will of current management by purchasing a controlling interest of stock and acquiring proxies.

(ornithology) A bird which practises kleptoparasitism.

(military) A special forces operative; a commando.

A kind of marble in children's games.

A warship which is light, maneuverable, and fast-moving.

(transitive) To appropriate by piracy; to plunder at sea.

A warplane on an air raid.

To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of.

A law enforcement official who conducts a raid on a building in search for illicit goods.

To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of.

(informal) A person who uncovers evidence of improper behavior within governmental or private organizations.

(intransitive) To engage in piracy.

One who engages in a raid.

To entice an employee to switch from a competing company to one's own.

Someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

Illegally imitated or reproduced, said of a trademarked product or copyrighted work, or of the counterfeit itself.

A corporate investor who intends to take over a company by buying a controlling interest in its stock and installing new management

A robber on the high seas; one who by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas; especially, one who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or plunder; a freebooter on the seas; also, one who steals in a harbor.

An armed ship or vessel which sails without a legal commission, for the purpose of plundering other vessels on the high seas.

One who infringes the law of copyright, or publishes the work of an author without permission.

To play the pirate; to practice robbery on the high seas.

To publish, as books or writings, without the permission of the author.

Someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own

Someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

A ship manned by pirates

Copy illegally; of published material

Take arbitrarily or by force;