() A person of rank; a noble or grandee; a person of influence or distinction in any sphere.
() One of the nobility, or certain high officers of state belonging to the noble estate in the national representation of Hungary, and formerly of Poland.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lord Foster, the architect, who was ennobled in 1999, and Lord Bagri, the Indian metal magnate, resigned last night.
(2) Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart has reduced her stake in Fairfax Media, publisher of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age newspapers, less than three weeks after she increased her investment in the group.
(3) She is, as her friend the teenage media magnate Tavi Gevinson put it, nothing less than “BFF to planet Earth”.
(4) Construction firms worth €550m belonging to building magnate Rosario Cascio and €700m worth of property and business concerns have been confiscated from Giuseppe Grigoli, whose retail and distribution group allegedly laundered Messina Denaro's cash.
(5) Meanwhile, UK magnate Sir Philip Green is looking into opportunities provided by the crisis in Reykjavik.
(6) The Private Islands Online website, which specialises in selling island paradises and rocky outcrops across the world, says a little bit of land surrounded by sea in the Cyclades or Dodecanese is the perfect trophy asset: "Greek islands are the ultimate status symbol, evoking images of sunglass-sporting shipping magnates sipping champagne on the deck of enormous yachts."
(7) The aluminium magnate's British-related woes do not stop there: a former business partner, Michael Cherney, is suing him for $4bn in the high court.
(8) Keurig Green Mountain, the single-serving coffee magnate, claims that its latest coffee brewing system, Keurig 2.0, “brings consumers more choice than ever”.
(9) One-time mining magnate Nathan Tinkler's Buildev Group paid $66,000, the Gazal family's development company Gazcorp paid $137,000, and the Obeid-linked Australian Water Holdings (AWH) paid $137,000 for fake services invoiced by EightByFive, the inquiry has heard.
(10) In 2011, the Republican frontrunner was, briefly, Herman Cain, a pizza magnate who took his tax plan from a computer game and quoted a song from the Pokemon mo vie in his speeches.
(11) Among those expected to attend is Sheldon Adelson, a high-profile billionaire Jewish American casino magnate and major supporter of and donor to the Romney campaign.
(12) Those big expensive ads didn’t have the impact we hoped they would,” said Mel Sembler, a Florida shopping mall magnate who was a top fundraiser for the Jeb Bush-backing Right to Rise Super Pac which hauled in about $119m, but spent only a few million targeting Trump.
(13) Getty became a billionaire oil magnate after four years of speculative drilling in the Saudi Arabian desert proved to be worth the risk.
(14) Hywood assured staff the papers would remain independent and would not be influenced editorially by the company's largest shareholder, the mining magnate Gina Rinehart , who boosted her stake in Fairfax Media to 18.7% last week.
(15) Guests on the night included the reclusive mining magnate and media player Gina Rinehart and media baron Rupert Murdoch, and Abbott was introduced on the occasion by influential Melbourne columnist and broadcaster Andrew Bolt.
(16) According to Bornstein, the business magnate has never had cancer, nor has he ever had a “hip, knee, or shoulder replacement, or any other orthopedic surgery”.
(17) Now the billionaire media magnate has jumped into the ring with anti-Putin activist and blogger Alexey Navalny, just as the Kremlin tightens the screws on dissenting voices on the internet.
(18) Meanwhile, the Burrell Collection – gifted to the city by shipping magnate Sir William Burrell in 1944 – contains more than 8,000 works of art collected during his lifetime.
(19) Newman has also accused the mining magnate of trying to buy his government, allegations which will see the pair square off in court.
(20) The 77-year-old media magnate has issued alternate pleas and threats in an attempt to avoid being stripped of his seat under a law passed last year – with the support of his then party, the Freedom People – which stipulates that MPs convicted of serious criminal offences must be ineligible for parliament.
Mogul
Definition:
(n.) A person of the Mongolian race.
(n.) A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck.
Example Sentences:
(1) Donald Trump and the 'war on women': GOP confident mogul will lose the battle Read more Governor Scott Walker, who recently signed a restrictive 20-week abortion ban in Wisconsin , also opposes abortion without exceptions and has said voters agree, though polls tell a different story.
(2) The media mogul said he had spoken "very carefully under oath" at the Leveson inquiry on Wednesday, when he had said that Brown had pledged to "declare war" on his company in a phone call made at around the time the Sun came out in support of the Conservative party, on 30 September of that year.
(3) Donald Trump refuses to release birth certificate and passport records Read more Firing back at Univision for its refusal to air his Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants , the outspoken mogul and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has barred anyone who works for Univision from the greens of his Miami golf course.
(4) When Dirk Nowitzki and the Dallas Mavericks beat the Heat in the 2011 NBA Finals , a series where James made a habit of disappearing in the fourth quarter, it somehow felt like an underdog victory (because nothing screams "true underdogs" like a Dallas-based team bankrolled by a billionaire mogul ).
(5) Photograph: Suki Dhanda for the Observer Waheed Alli is a Labour life peer and multi-millionaire media mogul, one of the few openly gay Muslim politicians in the world.
(6) The Nevada senator aimed his fire in particular at McConnell, who threw his support behind Trump last week when it became all but certain that the real estate mogul had clinched the nomination.
(7) Salinger has been bought up by independent film mogul Harvey Weinstein after he reportedly saw a private screening of it at 7.30 on the morning of the Oscars.
(8) There's a reason media moguls aren't what they used to be – the companies they run are less powerful too.
(9) Currently, the real estate mogul is polling well over 50% in the state and has the support of much of its Republican infrastructure.
(10) Should the business mogul win in Florida and Ohio on Tuesday, he is all but certain to steamroll his way to the nomination.
(11) January 27, 2016 The media mogul, whose companies own the Sun and once owned the News of the World, has obviously forgotten the details of his own “people” who became close to government.
(12) While attention has focused on the enticing possibility of a bid for the papers from established newspaper owners such as Express Newspapers boss Richard Desmond, News Corporation mogul Rupert Murdoch and Daily Mail & General Trust, analysts and bankers believe a City-backed bid is far more likely.
(13) Other incentives to avoid misconduct may include a desire to earn re-election, the need to maintain prestige as an element of Presidential influence, and a President’s traditional concern for his historical stature.” Those checks and balances are likely to be tested when the business mogul-turned-president takes office.
(14) Rupert Murdoch invited Boris Johnson to a private dinner at his Mayfair home on a recent visit by the tycoon to London, the latest sign of growing intimacy between the media mogul recovering from the phone-hacking storm and the mayor of London – seen as a long-term rival to David Cameron.
(15) But according to the few Trump supporters willing to speak on the record – all of whom speak in superlatives of their adopted country and its people – Mexicans simply misunderstand the real-estate mogul.
(16) Earvin “Magic” Johnson, the former NBA star who was the subject of some of Sterling’s remarks, said on Twitter: “Commissioner Silver showed great leadership in banning LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life.” The real estate mogul’s punishment was announced almost four days after he was heard on a recording released by TMZ telling his mistress, V Stiviano, to stop bringing black guests to Clippers games.
(17) Blackout will be organising grassroots events, nationwide, for people to come out and show their solidarity in the fight for equal human rights.” Backers include Fruitvale Station actor Michael B Jordan, Vampire Diaries star Kat Graham, hiphop mogul Russell Simmons and erstwhile Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello.
(18) But we did learn the lessons of opposition too well, and once in government we worried too much about the media moguls, particularly over Europe.
(19) John Prescott reacts to the media mogul's nascent social media presence "If I'm just like a virgin, Ricky, why don't you come over here and do something about it?"
(20) Carly Fiorina expertly defuses Trump on 'beautiful face' retort and foreign policy Read more The New York real estate mogul went out off his way to bash Carly Fiorina , the former Hewlett Packard CEO and GOP presidential rival with whom he sparred in Wednesday’s debate.