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magnate | American Dictionary

magnate
noun[ C ]
us/ˈmæɡ·nət, -neɪt/
a person who is very successful, powerful, and rich, esp. in a particular business:
a real estate/media magnate

magnate | Business English

magnate
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈmæɡneɪt/us
someone who has become very rich and successful in business or industry, especially someone who owns a large organization that they started themselves:
a newspaper/oil/shipping/steel, etc. magnateJacqueline Kennedy married the Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis.

Examples of magnate

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While politicians and oil magnates argued the case for exploitation, conservationists fought to keep the region pristine.
At most, the ruler might delay pardon, ignoring the magnate as he did so.
Thirty of the remaining eightyfive families, one third (35.3 per cent) of the surviving group, managed to establish themselves as magnates in the interval.
Both magnates had founded their fortunes to some extent on their star female partners.
Frequently, the personal aesthetic values of these magnates overturned audience preferences.
The majority of recruits were landed magnates, proprietors of estates of 10,000 acres or more.
If the majority of new peers were magnates, the crown also ennobled a substantial group of smaller landowners.
Throughout our period the crown consistently elevated men to the peerage who were not magnates.
As a result, to a very large extent, propertied elites, merchants and industrialists and local magnates created their own private arrangements for protection and policing.
Each magnate had his own domain of schools, students, followers, and charities.
The degree of control over subsistence production enjoyed by the sultan and his provincial magnates extended to the collection of services and dues reminiscent of feudal relations.
It is hardly surprising that the bulk of ' new ' peers were landed magnates as well as members of the parliamentary elite, for the two groups largely coincided.
Before 1770, the likelihood was that if their families survived for long the scions of these more modestly endowed recruits would enter the magnate group within a few generations.
Clearly, then, the expectation was that the newly ennobled who lacked magnate status at the time of their elevation would correct that deficiency within a generation or two.
Generally, the maritime settlements should be regarded as seasonal settlements forming the basis for administered trade, and in some places this occurred in connection with gathering places for local magnates.
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