Tycoon meaning

Noun: tycoon

Pronunciation: (tI’koon)

Tycoon meaning: A very wealthy or powerful businessman.

Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, top executive, power

Quotations: Phyllis McGinley – Gossip isn’t scandal and it’s not merely malicious. It’s chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.

Tom Segev – He enjoys the status of a father figure. He’s not anymore conceived of as a normal politician but a larger than life figure. He’s almost like a museum-type of man. There’s a feeling that the last tycoon is gone now.

Stephen Brown – Many of the first generation post war tycoons had no formal education. They came from refugee families, and they were educated here, so you can imagine the level of education.

Thabo Mbeki – They (the people) put us in positions of power so that they should thrive and not so that we should seek to lighten the burden of our ponderous titles by transforming ourselves from elected and accountable politicians into self-serving tycoons.

Sample sentences:

1. The tycoons got into it. It’s a herd mentality more than anything else.
2. The investment made by some of Hong Kong’s tycoons in Nine Dragons supported the debut of this company.
3. In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It’s not as if people don’t know what is going on.
4. We did last week reject a $3 million offer for Written Tycoon, so to say that we, or even I, are in any financial trouble is presumptuous to say the least.