magnates
Powerful business leaders
Magnates are powerful figures in business or industry—people who have accumulated wealth and influence in a particular field: media magnates, oil magnates, real estate magnates.
The term suggests not just wealth but dominance and control over an entire sector.
A magnate shapes markets rather than merely participating in them.
Titled nobles, lowest rank
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
- railroadsTrain transportation systems
- factoriesIndustrial production facilities
- manufacturingIndustrial product creation
monopolies · robber-barons · oil · mining · shipping · textiles · automobiles · machinery
Dominant industrial leader
- mogulInfluential industry leader
- baronLow-ranking peer
- plutocratRuler through wealth
- oligarchMember of small ruling class
czar · titan · kingpin · big-shot · heavyweight · fat-cat · moneyman · wheeler-dealer
Person worth ten figures
- fortuneWealth or destiny
- affluenceAbundance of money
- richesAbundant valuable possessions
- assetsOwned items of value
holdings · portfolio · dividends · shares · stakeholder · estates · luxury · opulence
Advocating to decision-makers
- patronageSupporter's financial backing
- kingmakerPolitical influence wielder
- philanthropyGenerous giving for others
- cloutInformal power or punch
sway · broker · backer · fixer · maneuvering · strategist · sponsor · puppeteer
One who starts businesses
- capitalistPrivate ownership supporter
- financierManager of substantial funds
- investorOne who allocates capital
- businessmanCommercial enterprise operator
executive · proprietor · founder · innovator · pioneer · director · CEO · chairman
barons
Titled nobles, lowest rank
- steelCarbon-hardened iron alloy
- railroadsTrain transportation systems
- factoriesIndustrial production facilities
manufacturing · monopolies · robber-barons · oil · mining · shipping · textiles · automobiles · machinery · assembly
tycoon
Dominant industrial leader
oligarch · czar · titan · kingpin · big-shot · heavyweight · fat-cat · moneyman · wheeler-dealer · taipan
billionaire
Person worth ten figures
assets · holdings · portfolio · dividends · shares · stakeholder · estates · luxury · opulence · prosperity
lobbying
Advocating to decision-makers
- patronageSupporter's financial backing
- kingmakerPolitical influence wielder
- philanthropyGenerous giving for others
clout · sway · broker · backer · fixer · maneuvering · strategist · sponsor · puppeteer · power-broker
entrepreneur
One who starts businesses
- capitalistPrivate ownership supporter
- financierManager of substantial funds
- investorOne who allocates capital
businessman · executive · proprietor · founder · innovator · pioneer · director · CEO · chairman · owner
- high societygossip, socialites, socialite, aristocrats, aristocrat
- eliteselites, plutocrats, oligarchs, aristocrats, blue bloods
- famososinfluencers, divas, estrellas, chefs, politicos
- nobilityking, queen, prince, princess, duke
- upper classaristocrat, nobles, baron, baroness, baronet
- Gilded Age AmericansAndrew Carnegie, Carnegie, Cornelius Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan, JP Morgan
magnatesunderlings
Lower-ranked employees
subordinates · minions · lackeys · rank and file · serfs
magnatessmall fry
Children or insignificant people
shopkeepers · sole proprietors · street vendors · small-timers · peddlers
magnatesnobodies
Unimportant, unknown persons
nonentities · unknowns · small fry · little people · commoners
- business magnateWealthy industrial leader
- oil magnatesWealthy petroleum industry leaders
- media magnateWealthy communications industry owner
- shipping magnateWealthy fleet owner
- mining magnatesWealthy extraction industry leaders
- railroad magnatesWealthy railway industry leaders