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What (who) is tycoon - definition
ENTREPRENEUR WHO HAS ACHIEVED WEALTH AND PROMINENCE FROM A PARTICULAR INDUSTRY (OR INDUSTRIES)
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tycoon
[t??'ku:n]
¦ noun
1. a wealthy, powerful person in business or industry.
2. a title applied by foreigners to the shogun of Japan in power between 1857 and 1868.
Origin
C19: from Japanese taikun 'great lord'.
tycoon
(tycoons)
A tycoon is a person who is successful in business and so has become rich and powerful.
= magnate
N-COUNT
Tycoon
·noun The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners.
Wikipedia
Business magnate
A business magnate, also known as an industrialist or tycoon, is a person who has achieved immense wealth through the creation or ownership of multiple lines of enterprise. The term characteristically refers to a powerful entrepreneur or investor who controls, through personal enterprise ownership or a dominant shareholding position, a firm or industry whose goods or services are widely consumed. Such individuals have been known by different terms throughout history, such as robber barons, captains of industry, czars, moguls, oligarchs, plutocrats, or taipans.
Examples of use of tycoon
1. BRATSKI RATING: 5 Property tycoon: Anna Anisimova Name: Anna Anisimova Age: 22. ‘It‘ factor: Emigre princess and property tycoon.
2. The Egyptian–born tycoon was ostentatiously wealthy.
3. They include Dr Chai Patel, founder of Priory Clinics; clothing tycoon Richard Caring; bio–science expert Professor Sir Christopher Evans; and Sir Gulam Noon, the curry tycoon.
4. The voluptuous blonde married Texas oil tycoon J.
5. Some native Chukotka artists have started mythologizing the tycoon.