noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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Capetian successes in Poitou and Aquitaine were heavily dependent upon the volatile loyalty of the great magnates and nobles on Poitou.
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The church's vast wealth was accessible to the king on a scale denied even to the greatest of landed magnates .
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But the influence of the great magnates survived this change.
local
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The local magnates exercised a limited but real authority entirely independent of the colonial administration.
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Its leaders were local magnates who co-operated with each other by exchanging and transporting stolen cattle.
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magazine
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Steve Forbes, the magazine magnate currently racing toward the top of the polls, had almost no contributors.
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Q.: With the approach of the campaign season, why has magazine magnate Steve Forbes become such a hot item?
media
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James Bond now takes on international media magnates rather than Rosa Kleb.
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Milano, sponsored by media magnate Berlusconi, are coached by Mark Ella and are the current title holders.
oil
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Sukarno became fascinated by Hartini, wife of an oil magnate .
■ VERB
publish
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The publishing magnate is challenging front-runner Dole by attracting largely middle-class suburban voters seemingly alienated from the political process.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Foundations set up by magnates such as Carnegie and Rockefeller provided most of the funding for the arts in the US.
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newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst
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She married a Texan oil magnate .
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the property magnate who owns the Empire State Building
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Bloomwater's present owner was a more prosaic figure, Sir Lionel Newman, the paper magnate .
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Both history and literature are full of stories of men who metamorphosed into magnates because they controlled some scarce factor of production.
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Both were his colleagues amongst the seven original confederate magnates.
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Inevitably the interests of individual magnates varied.
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John Fitzgeoffrey was evidently a man of considerable parts, respected both by his fellow magnates and by the king.
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Miss Hinkle was always trying to make me an office magnate , dictating letters and answering telephone calls.