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[Thai Economics Library | Archives (for history)]
September 29, 2007

Tycoon

a tycoon (noun) - a rich and powerful businessman

a business tycoon
a would-be business tycoon
a right-wing business tycoon

a media tycoon
a newspaper tycoon
a press tycoon
oil tycoon

telecommunications tycoon Thaksin
the controversial tycoon
the charismatic tycoon
the indicted tycoon
massage parlour tycoon Chuwit Kamolvisit
young Silicon Valley software tycoon
investment tycoon
a mystery American millionaire tycoon

a tycoon playboy
the tycoon's girl
the most romantic top tycoon in Britain
marriage to a tycoon

an Australian beer tycoon
shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis
a Wall Street tycoon
a cigar smoking tycoon

a fallen tycoon
a disgraced tycoon
a crooked tycoon
a tycoon's estate
the will of a dead tycoon
the complicated business dealings of the tycoon


Example sentences:

* The will of a dead tycoon left his wife with nothing.

* The tycoon only smoked big cigars from Cuba when he played Monopoly.

* The extent of the tycoon's estate must be explored before we read his will.

* The 250 pound tycoon treated his wife appallingly.

* The fallen tycoon was arrested yesterday during a police inquiry into missing company funds.

* I know less than nothing about you, and if you're important, which you must be if you're a, well, a tycoon, then I expect you entertain a lot friends, business associates which means that you'll need a girlfriend who'll be a credit to you and I don't know if I can do that!

* She had billions even before her marriage to that tycoon.

* The fun-loving niece of tycoon Lord Bolderdash plunged to her death after knocking back eighteen tequila slammer cocktails costing just seven pounds and three tuppence.

* Tammy's tycoon father is trying to come to terms with his daughter's death.

* Accountants are still wading through the tycoon's complicated business dealings to see if pension funds can still keep paying out after being plundered by the greedy tycoon.

* Tycoon's girl pleads poverty. [Newspaper headline]

* The tycoon's miniscule pay cut, cut no ice with angry shareholders yesterday after the jewellery tycoon admitted that losses at the chain's near 10,000 shops ballooned from 1 billion to 10 billion to in a mere four months.

* The straight-talking tycoon ditched his plan for a pork pie factory when a council official told him: "Call me Mister."



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