The meaning of Tycoons

noun

A member of the lowest order of the british nobility. baron is not used as a form of address, barons usually being referred to as ‘lord’.

Usage examples:

Dukes, duchesses, and barons made up the nobility, while the gentry consisted of knights and lords.

noun

A person who is extremely powerful in a particular area of business

Usage examples:

A media/press/newspaper baron, an oil baron, a drugs baron

noun

A person possessing assets worth at least a billion pounds or dollars.

Usage examples:

Melbourne is filling with tycoons, moguls, magnates, billionaires and mere millionaires.

noun

Someone who has more than a billion dollars (= $1,000,000,000) in the form of property, possessions, or money

noun

A person who has money, property, etc. that is worth at least a billion dollars, pounds, euros, etc.

Usage examples:

The new mayor is a billionaire with no prior government experience.

noun

A leader or ruler of a people or clan.

Usage examples:

The chief of the village

adjective

Most important.

Usage examples:

The chief reason for the spending cuts

adjective

Most important

Usage examples:

Their chief objection to the appointment was that she had no judicial experience., the chief econom…

noun

A person who sets up a business or businesses, taking on financial risks in the hope of profit.

Usage examples:

Many entrepreneurs see potential in this market

noun

A person who attempts to make a profit by starting a company or by operating alone in the business world, esp. when it involves taking risks

Usage examples:

He’s an entrepreneur who made his money in computer software.

noun

Someone who makes money by starting their own business, especially when this involves seeing a new opportunity and taking risks

Usage examples:

An internet/e-commerce/dotcom entrepreneur, a property/retail/technology entrepreneur, a wealthy/su…

noun

A spanish or portuguese nobleman of the highest rank.

Usage examples:

The atmospheric spot is decorated like a spanish grandee's mansion.

noun

An important person, especially in a particular job or area of public life

noun

A person involved in the ownership and management of industry.

Usage examples:

The exploitation of child labour by nineteenth-century industrialists

noun

An owner or an employee in a high position in industry

noun

An owner or important executive in industry

Usage examples:

A rich/wealthy industrialist, influential/leading/powerful industrialists

noun

A man of noble rank or high office; a nobleman.

Usage examples:

Lords and ladies were entertained here

exclamation

Used in exclamations expressing surprise or worry, or for emphasis.

Usage examples:

Lord, i'm cold!

verb

Act in a superior and domineering manner towards (someone).

Usage examples:

When we were at school, you used to lord it over us

noun

A wealthy and influential businessman or businesswoman.

Usage examples:

A property magnate

noun

A person who is very successful, powerful, and rich, esp. in a particular business

Usage examples:

A real estate/media magnate

noun

Someone who has become very rich and successful in business or industry, especially someone who owns a large organization that they started themselves

Usage examples:

A newspaper/oil/shipping/steel, etc. magnate jacqueline kennedy married the greek shipping magnate,…

noun

A very powerful, important, or eminent person.

Usage examples:

The ranking magnificoes of the media establishment

noun

A person whose assets are worth one million pounds or dollars or more.

Usage examples:

He is now a millionaire several times over

noun

An important or powerful person, especially in the film or media industry.

Usage examples:

The hollywood movie mogul, sam goldwyn

noun

A bump on a ski slope formed by skiers turning.

Usage examples:

A mogul field

noun

A member of the muslim dynasty of mongol origin founded by the successors of tamerlane, which ruled much of india from the 16th to the 19th century.

Usage examples:

Mogul architecture

noun

A muslim official or governor under the mogul empire.

noun

A rich or powerful person