magnate
/ˈmæɡneɪt/ noun C2- Powerful industrialist; captain of industry. · I have decided to become an oil magnate, after spending quite some time reading the dictionary definition of the word magnate.
- A person of rank, influence or distinction in any sphere.
- In medieval and early modern Italy, a member of a legally defined category of especially wealthy patrician families, often deprived of the right to political participation by republican governments.
Plural magnates
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Old Acton, who is one of our county magnates, had his house broken into last Monday.
The point is a simple one, but the Inspector had overlooked it because he had started with the supposition that these county magnates had had nothing to do with the matter.
We’ll teach these magnates that they cannot ride roughshod over the rights of the commoners, confound them!
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