transcription, транскрипция: [ empaɪə(r) ]
( empires)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
An empire is a number of individual nations that are all controlled by the government or ruler of one particular country.
...the Roman Empire.
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2.
You can refer to a group of companies controlled by one person as an empire .
...the big Mondadori publishing empire.
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