Magnate
noun
A person who is very rich and successful in business or industry.
He is a magnate in the automobile industry.
Often appears as...
- industrial magnate
- business magnate
noun
A person who is very rich and successful in business or industry.
He is a magnate in the automobile industry.
Often appears as...
- industrial magnate
- business magnate
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Business Success
Use 'magnate' for someone with notable achievements in business, exhibiting wealth and power.
After years of innovation, she became a tech magnate.
Pro Tip 2/3Industry Specific
'Magnate' often pairs with a sector, showing expertise in a particular industry, like 'oil magnate'.
The city is home to a prominent steel magnate.
Pro Tip 3/3Collocation Examples
Familiarize with collocations such as 'media magnate' to enhance vocabulary in specific contexts.
She became a media magnate after acquiring several television networks.
Pro Tip 1/3Business Success
Use 'magnate' for someone with notable achievements in business, exhibiting wealth and power.
After years of innovation, she became a tech magnate.
Pro Tip 2/3Industry Specific
'Magnate' often pairs with a sector, showing expertise in a particular industry, like 'oil magnate'.
The city is home to a prominent steel magnate.
Pro Tip 3/3Collocation Examples
Familiarize with collocations such as 'media magnate' to enhance vocabulary in specific contexts.
She became a media magnate after acquiring several television networks.
Pro Tip 1/3Business Success
Use 'magnate' for someone with notable achievements in business, exhibiting wealth and power.
After years of innovation, she became a tech magnate.
Pro Tip 2/3Industry Specific
'Magnate' often pairs with a sector, showing expertise in a particular industry, like 'oil magnate'.
The city is home to a prominent steel magnate.
Pro Tip 3/3Collocation Examples
Familiarize with collocations such as 'media magnate' to enhance vocabulary in specific contexts.
She became a media magnate after acquiring several television networks.
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Steven Johnson: How...
you had to convince the dairy industry to make pasteurized milk, and that took a whole other cast of characters. It took muckraking journalists. It took crusading lawmakers. There was a whole subculture of pasteurization activists back then. Maybe the most unlikely one was a department store magnate
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The Real Origin of the...
have full ownership, but no similar support. All the examples in my opening question are a franchise operation. Kroc is sometimes credited with inventing franchising, and so is Isaac Singer, the sewing machine magnate.
Video examples
Steven Johnson: How...
you had to convince the dairy industry to make pasteurized milk, and that took a whole other cast of characters. It took muckraking journalists. It took crusading lawmakers. There was a whole subculture of pasteurization activists back then. Maybe the most unlikely one was a department store magnate
Video examples
The Real Origin of the...
have full ownership, but no similar support. All the examples in my opening question are a franchise operation. Kroc is sometimes credited with inventing franchising, and so is Isaac Singer, the sewing machine magnate.
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Quote examples
Charles Schwab
American Businessman
There was a guy by the name of Charles Schwab: actually, Charles M. Schwab. I read a lot about him, and I always hoped I was related, but I wasn't. He was a steel magnate. He worked for J.P. Morgan; then he started Bethlehem Steel. But he had no children, unfortunately, and it turned out I wasn't a relative.
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Rachel Weisz
British Actress
I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it?
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Gore Vidal
American Novelist
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.
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Mark McKinnon
American Businessman
Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it's 98 degrees in the desert of Arizona or below freezing in the snow of Wisconsin.
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P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
Quote examples
Charles Schwab
American Businessman
There was a guy by the name of Charles Schwab: actually, Charles M. Schwab. I read a lot about him, and I always hoped I was related, but I wasn't. He was a steel magnate. He worked for J.P. Morgan; then he started Bethlehem Steel. But he had no children, unfortunately, and it turned out I wasn't a relative.
Quote examples
Rachel Weisz
British Actress
I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what's interesting is it, it takes away the power, from the newspaper magnates, so be it Murdoch or whatever. I mean, it's like the people taking it back. Isn't it?
Quote examples
Gore Vidal
American Novelist
World War II made prosperous the United States, which had been undergoing a depression for a dozen years, and made very rich those magnates and their managers who govern the republic - with many a wink - in the people's name.
Quote examples
Mark McKinnon
American Businessman
Sarah Palin is brilliant. She is a media magnet and a media magnate. She creates headlines and draws crowds wherever she goes, whether it's 98 degrees in the desert of Arizona or below freezing in the snow of Wisconsin.
Quote examples
P. J. O'Rourke
American Comedian
As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.
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