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TYCOON
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tycoon mean?
• TYCOON (noun)
The noun TYCOON has 1 sense:
1. a very wealthy or powerful businessman
Familiarity information: TYCOON used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A very wealthy or powerful businessman
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
baron; big businessman; business leader; king; magnate; mogul; power; top executive; tycoon
Context example:
an oil baron
Hypernyms ("tycoon" is a kind of...):
businessman; man of affairs (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tycoon"):
oil tycoon (a powerful person in the oil business)
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