magnate
/ˈmægneɪt/ noun [C]Definition
› someone who has become very rich and successful in business or industry, especially someone who owns a large organization that they started themselves: a newspaper/oil/shipping/steel, etc. magnate Jacqueline Kennedy married the Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis.
(Definition of magnate noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
© Cambridge University Press)
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