business magnate

Wealthy corporate leader

A business magnate is a person of great wealth and influence in commerce or industry—someone who controls major companies or dominates an entire sector.

The term suggests power beyond mere riches: a railroad magnate, a media magnate.

Magnate often appears with the industry: oil magnate, shipping magnate, real estate magnate.

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robber baron · billionaire · empire · wealth · old money · fortune · CEO · corporate titan · titan · baron · entrepreneur · plutocrat · conglomerate · boardroom · corner office · mansion · yacht · private jet

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economic scale and power

business magnatestreet vendor

Outdoor unlicensed merchant

sole proprietor · corner store owner · artisan · freelancer

socioeconomic status

business magnatepauper

Person in extreme poverty

homeless person · beggar · indigent · working poor · have-not

relationship to labor and capital

business magnatefactory worker

Manufacturing floor employee

proletarian · employee · sweatshop worker · hired hand · blue-collar worker

Family

business, magnate, busily, busyness, businesses, businesslike, businessman, businesswoman, businessmen

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