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单词 tycoon
释义
tycoonty‧coon /taɪˈkuːn/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINtycoon
Origin:
1800-1900 Japanese taikun, from Chinese taijun, from tai ‘great’ + jun ‘ruler’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a Greek shipping tycoon
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • 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.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY
 a multi-millionaire property tycoon
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· A worthwhile alternative to becoming a business tycoon is to devote your energies to voluntary work.
· 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.
· 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.
· Orphan Lara Cameron metamorphoses into a beautiful property tycoon.
someone who is successful in business or industry and has a lot of money and powermedia/property/business/newspaper tycoon a multi-millionaire property tycoon
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