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The word 'tycoon' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to a person or company that is extremely successful, especially in a particular industry. For example, "The media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is one of the wealthiest men in the world."
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Carswell has previously mooted that a business leader, like vacuum cleaner tycoon James Dyson, would be best placed as a figurehead for the campaign to leave the EU.
Major individual donors to Labour in the new report include the computer tycoon Sir Alan Sugar (£200,000), the steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal (£125,000), Granada Group chairman Gerry Robinson (£20,000) and property mil lionaire Sir Sigmund Sternberg (£100,000).
The spectacular home at 63-67 Wolseley Road was once owned by the recruitment tycoon Julia Ross but was bought by a company controlled by one of China's biggest property companies in November 2014.
Speaking in March, his aides said the oil tycoon was determined to go ahead with the case and had "nothing to hide".
Refer to chapter five of Terry Southern's hilarious 1959 satire The Magic Christian for descriptions of the programming devised by anarchic tycoon Guy Grand when he splashes out on his own private cinema.
It's a long, squalid story that also involves Owen Oyston, the club's 81-year-old owner, a property tycoon who was convicted in 1996 of raping a 16-year-old girl (when he was 58) and served three and a half years of a six-year sentence.
It wasn't only golfers who bought into the concept: Van Morrison played in front of just 150 people on behalf of McIlroy's charity with the telecoms and media tycoon Denis O'Brien, reportedly worth £3.85bn, part of the audience.
One tycoon who may have downscaled tomorrow night's festivities is Roman Abramovich, owner of Chelsea football club.
In the obituaries for the late tycoon, it's been customary to distinguish between two Alan Bonds: the bad Bond who was a shonky bankrupt jailed for criminal business practices and the good Bond, who did Australia proud at Newport.
With that oddly staccato announcement on New Year's Eve, the ultimate old media tycoon joined the brave new world of Twitter.
In particular, Lowry has been the focus of public interest due to his links to the billionaire telecoms tycoon Denis O'Brien and the former supermarket boss Ben Dunne.
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