business empire

collocation in English

meaningsofbusinessandempire

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business
noun
uk
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/us
/ˈbɪz.nɪs/
the activity of buying and selling goods ...
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empire
noun[C]
uk
/ˈem.paɪər/us
/ˈem.paɪr/
a group of countries ruled by a single person, government, ...
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(Definition ofbusinessandempirefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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They used the yardstick of western values to criticize other families who had in their eyes used political power to build abusinessempire.
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Six other factories within this familybusinessempirehad stopped operation and completely shut down.
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Most of my party's members have no idea about thisbusinessempireor what has been going on.
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Shantanu is a rich man with a vastbusinessempire, with little time for old friends.
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On his death hisbusinessempirewas divided.
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He maintained control of thisbusinessempireuntil his death in 1870.
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Today, hisbusinessempirehas grown into areas such as plantation, property development, construction, engineering, power generation, infrastructure and ports.
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Between 1995 and 1999 where he was relatively inactive in politics, he was very much immersed in building abusinessempire.
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He spent his time on social activities and the charitable instituitions he had built as well as looking after his massivebusinessempire.
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By 2001, hisbusinessempirewas diversified into ceramics, packaging, freight-forwarding, clothing and fashion, nightclubs and entertainment, media and investments.
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Hisbusinessempiregrew stably and received many international accolades for the consistent quality of his products and services.
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Kishan is a rich man with a vastbusinessempireand little time for old friends.
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Its continued prosperity allowed him to expand his holdings to found abusinessempire.
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He runs hisbusinessempirewith brute force.
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Hisbusinessempireboomed as the properties he bought in the early 1980s surged in value.
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Sugar is now billed simply as controlling a vastbusinessempire(most of which is actually in property).
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He was a pioneer in this field who build up a vastbusinessempirethrough impeccable planning and systematic implementation.
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In subsequent years, he built up abusinessempirethrough acquisitions of many small insurance corporations.
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The player creates and controls abusinessempire.
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He built abusinessempirethat included ranching, banking, lumber, oil, real estate, and newspaper publishing.
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