imperial(EMPIRE)
the tsarist empire沙皇帝国
the Austro-Hungarian empire
It used to be said that Britain ruled an empire on which the sun would never set.过去人们常说英国统治着一个日不落帝国。
The temple ruins are a distant reminder of a vanished empire.神殿的废墟让人回想起一个消亡已久的帝国。
This century saw the dismemberment of the empire.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Colonization & self-government
acknowledgement of country
annex
annexation
anti-colonial
anti-colonialism
colony
commonwealth
condominium
crown colony
declare independence
imperially
independence
Independence Day
intercolonial
land acknowledgment
recolonize
secede
secession
self-determination
self-governing

empirenoun[C] (ORGANIZATION)

C1
a very large and important business or organization: 大企业;大集团
In the space of just ten years, her company has grown from one small retail outlet to a multi-million-dollar empire.仅仅10年的时间，她的公司就由一个小商店发展成为一家拥有数百万英镑资产的企业集团。
He owns a huge publishing empire.
Carter rapidly expanded his business empire.
It is the world's largest media and entertainment empire.
His corporate empire collapsed and about $666 million of pension fund assets were found to be missing.
Her business empire brought her wealth beyond the dreams of avarice.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Organizations, Societies & clubs
Assn
Assoc.
co-op
collegium
cooperative
establishment
fellowship
host
lodge
mission
organization
secret society
semi-public
shuffle
sub-organization
subchapter
subcommission
superclub
trust
youth club

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Enterprises

empire | American Dictionary

empire
noun[ C ]
us/ˈem·pɑɪər/
politics & government
a group of countries ruled by a single person, government, or country:
the British/Soviet Empire

empire | Business English

empire
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈempaɪər/us
a large group of businesses that are controlled by a powerful company or person:
build/create/expand an empireEntrepreneur Rocco Forte built his empire from budget hotels and motorway services.
control/run an empireBesides running a fashion empire, he also functioned as director of no less than three banks.
an entertainment/media/publishing empire
a business/property empire
a gobal/international/worldwide empire

Examples of empire

empire
Accordingly, these stories demonstrate outright skepticism of the empire's civilizing mission.
She agrees with recent scholarship that has demonstrated that the rise of notables did not necessarily bring about the empire's decline (p. 6).
Liberals, too, were part of the empire's governing establishment.
Without a doubt, this is by far the best recent general book on empires available, and it deserves the widest possible readership.
The former sought to argue, using various examples of imperial rise and decline, that all empires followed the same trajectory ; that they all eventually collapsed.
Tensions between the foreign ministries of the two empires derived largely from their very different concepts regarding citizenship.
They inform us about the aspirations the travelers pursued in these empires and what activities they carried out.
In general the benefits of empires have usually been concentrated in the hands of the few, and the costs spread over taxpayers at large.
There are also two papers which have nothing to do with the seaborne empires.
No small part, therefore, originated from the tsarist empire's emergent middle class.
Captives demonstrates the timeless way in which militarily powerful empires can be reduced to vulnerability by preying upon their citizens.
The 1970s/1980s pub performance continues to be romanticised by musicians, promoters, managers and venue owners who established considerable commercial empires during the period.
Without immense determination, without the sights set on unreachable targets, the empires could not have been won.
The metaphor of organism for international order prevailed in most of the rearranged empires.
One difficulty was thus that the new, dispersed empires seemed to require a diversity of laws and political principles.
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Collocations withempire

empire

These are words often used in combination with empire.

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business empire
They used the yardstick of western values to criticize other families who had in their eyes used political power to build a businessempire.
empire builder
I cannot, therefore, be accused of being an empirebuilder.
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