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tycoon
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tycoon \Ty*coon"\ (t[-i]`k[=oo]n"), n. [Chinese tai-kun great prince.] The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1857, title given by foreigners to the shogun of Japan (said to have been used by his supporters when addressing foreigners, as an attempt to convey that the shogun was more important than the emperor), from Japanese taikun "great lord or prince," from Chinese tai "great" + kiun "lord." Transferred meaning "important person" is attested from 1861, in reference to U.S. president Abraham Lincoln (in the diary of his secretary, John Hay); specific application to "wealthy and powerful businessman" is post-World War I.
Wiktionary
n. A wealthy and powerful business person.
WordNet
n. a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron" [syn: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive]
Wikipedia
Tycoon, (sometimes includes subtitle "Tycoon: A Novel") published in 1997, is the 23rd novel by Harold Robbins.
Starting in the 1930s and ending in the 1970s, it follows the career and love-life of Jack Lear, an entrepreneur who builds an empire in broadcasting. Typically for a Robbins novel, it contains a large amount and variety of sexual content. Kirkus Reviews describes it as a roman à clef, with Lear's career resembling that of William S. Paley.
A review by Reed Business Information inc. concludes: "Wooden prose notwithstanding, the intricate blend of corporate intrigue and carnal gymnastics makes this a highly seductive read."
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- ISBN 0-684-81068-9
Tycoon (lit. Oligarch): A New Russian is a 2002 Russian movie directed by Pavel Loungine (or Lungin).
A tycoon is a business magnate. The word may also refer to:
- Taikun (大君), a Japanese term of Chinese extraction, the origin of the English word "tycoon"
- Tycoon (TV series), a reality television series fronted by English entrepreneur Peter Jones
- The Tycoon (TV series), a 1960s American TV sitcom starring Walter Brennan
- Tycoon (band), a 1970s rock group
- Tycoon (musical), an English adaption of the French rock opera Starmania
- Tycoon (1947 film), starring John Wayne
- Tycoon (2002 film), about Russian oligarchs
- Tycoon (novel), by Harold Robbins
- Video game genre, see business simulation game
Tycoon is a 1947 American Technicolor romance film starring John Wayne based on the 1934 novel of the same name by C.E. Scoggins.
Tycoon was an American rock band from New York City. The group released two records on Arista Records. "Such a Woman" charted one Top 40 hit single in 1979, "Such a Woman" ( U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #26) was produced by Robert "Mutt" Lange, Their 1981 album, Turn Out the Lights, was produced by Vini Poncia.
Tycoon is the second studio album by melodic hardcore band No Trigger. It was released almost six years after their first full-length, Canyoneer.
Tycoon was an ITV reality television show, based on the existing Peter Jones/ Simon Cowell production American Inventor, which began on 19 June 2007 at 9.00pm. It was fronted by Peter Jones, who searched for entrepreneurs with ideas that he helped turn into profit-making companies. The winner was chosen by the public. The entrepreneurs were competing for support from Peter Jones and the other companies' profits. The series also included a viewers' competition in which 25% of the winning company's shares were divided between 2,000 viewers.
After two weeks Tycoon was pulled from its slot at 9pm on Tuesday night due to disappointing ratings. After missing a week, the series returned on Monday 9 July at 10pm, cut from one hour to 30 minutes and reduced from six episodes to five.
The final of Tycoon took place on Monday 23 July on ITV, with Kate Thornton as host. Iain Morgan was announced the winner of the series.
Usage examples of "tycoon".
Coca-Cola story, telling of a pharmacological tycoon who invents a soft drink containing a mysterious, addictive stimulant.
The revolution which has ended in the triumph of the Daimios over the Tycoon, is also the triumph of the vassal over his feudal lord, and is the harbinger of political life to the people at large.
They finally reach Las Vegas, the closest this deracinated world gets to an Emerald City, where an enigmatic tycoon named Mr.
He is surely not one of those arrogant fire-eaters that usually do the arguing for the secesh more of a Hamlet, this one is, which is why the Tycoon is spending the time to save his soul from political perdition.
Arisen, Huizenga or some future sports tycoon gets antsy again in a few years.
It had been bought and brought to greatness in the fifties by a rumbustious tycoon thrown up atypically from prudent banking stock.
Soon Bedaux acquired the additional adornment of a socially impeccable spouse in the person of Fern Lombard, the daughter of a Michigan tycoon.
The workers at the cryolite quarry have a sparkle in their eyes, the industrial tycoons that earn the dough have a sparkle in their eyes, the Greenlandic cleanup staff have a sparkle in their eyes, and the blue fjords of Greenland are full of reflections and flashes of sunshine.
Downtown was doing its usual split-personality routine: Fasttalking, fast-walking Power Dressers, Wannabee Tycoons, and stifflipped secretaries sharing turf with bleary-eyed, filth-encrusted human shells transporting their life stories in purloined shopping carts and verminous bedrolls.
June carried in after me, and I surveyed the opulent carpet, deep armchairs and framed maps as in the lobby, and smoothed a hand over the grainy black expanse of the oversized desk, and felt like a jockey, not a tycoon.
Blockbuster himself should pony up a heftier chunk of the arena moneyan option no self-respecting sports tycoon likes to contemplate.
The Tycoon is serene: he thinks his two proclamations and his continued sufferance of McClellan will get him through the late autumn of discontent.
Here in Washington, the Army of the Potomac is now marching up and down, looking spiffier every day, and the Tycoon is beginning to get abuse for the Jacobins here and Greeley in the Tribune in New York for appointing a procrastinator as General-in-Chief.
I rather admire our Postmaster General, Montgomery Blair, and the Tycoon certainly respects his father, Old Man Blair.
He was that new and fascinating evolution of the primitive tycoon who simply worked at the job of being a millionaire, as un-excitedly as other men worked at the job of being bricklayers, and probably with no more grandiose ideas of his place in the engine of civilisation.