TYCOON


Meaning of TYCOON in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

business

A worthwhile alternative to becoming a business tycoon is to devote your energies to voluntary work.

media

Jane, who won the best actress award for her role in Coming Home, recently married media tycoon Ted Turner.

The billionaire media tycoon was said to have lost the money playing baccarat.

newspaper

There were also rumours that newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell was showing more than a passing interest in Storehouse.

Now it is to be sold, along with snaps of the late Mirror newspaper tycoon with Ronald Reagan valued at up to £300.

property

Orphan Lara Cameron metamorphoses into a beautiful property tycoon .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a Greek shipping tycoon

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Jane, who won the best actress award for her role in Coming Home, recently married media tycoon Ted Turner.

Now it is to be sold, along with snaps of the late Mirror newspaper tycoon with Ronald Reagan valued at up to £300.

One was Pierre Poivre, the son of a prominent Lyons silk tycoon .

The tycoon , who is also chairman of Dublin-based Independent Newspapers, now has a 1.3 percent shareholding in the group.

With the arrival of self-made tycoons such as Stagecoach's Brian Souter, the sway of the old elite may be diminishing.

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