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单词 empire
释义
empire
noun[C]
uk
/ˈem.paɪər/us
/ˈem.paɪr/

empirenoun[C](COUNTRIES)

C1
agroupofcountriesruledby asingleperson,government, orcountry:
帝国
theHolyRomanEmpire神圣罗马帝国
See also
imperial(EMPIRE)
More examples
  • thetsaristempire
  • the Austro-Hungarian empire
  • It used to be said thatBritainruledan empire on which thesunwould never set.
  • Thetempleruinsare adistantreminderof avanishedempire.
  • Thiscenturysawthedismembermentof the empire.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Colonization & self-government
  • acknowledgement of country
  • annex
  • annexation
  • anti-colonial
  • anti-colonialism
  • colonize
  • colony
  • commonwealth
  • condominium
  • crown colony
  • imperialist
  • independence
  • Independence Day
  • intercolonial
  • land acknowledgment
  • recolonization
  • recolonize
  • secede
  • secession
  • the Raj
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empirenoun[C](ORGANIZATION)

C1
a verylargeandimportantbusinessororganization:
大企业；大集团
In thespaceof just tenyears, hercompanyhasgrownfrom onesmallretailoutletto a multi-million-dollar empire.仅仅10年的时间，她的公司就由一个小商店发展成为一家拥有数百万英镑资产的企业集团。
More examples
  • Heownsahugepublishingempire.
  • Carterrapidlyexpandedhisbusinessempire.
  • It is the world'slargestmediaandentertainmentempire.
  • Hiscorporateempirecollapsedand about $666 million ofpensionfundassetswerefoundto bemissing.
  • Herbusinessempirebroughtherwealthbeyond thedreamsofavarice.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Organizations, Societies & clubs
  • Assn
  • Assoc.
  • association
  • cellular
  • co-op
  • collective
  • collegium
  • confederacy
  • confederation
  • consortium
  • cooperative
  • foundation
  • guild
  • institute
  • mission
  • outfit
  • rump
  • substation
  • syndicate
  • youth club
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You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:

Enterprises
(Definition ofempirefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

empire| American Dictionary

empire
noun[C]
us
/ˈem·pɑɪər/
politics & government
agroupofcountriesruledby asingleperson,government, orcountry:
the British/SovietEmpire
(Definition ofempirefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

empire| Business English

empire
noun[C]
uk
/ˈempaɪər/us
alargegroupofbusinessesthat arecontrolledby apowerfulcompanyorperson:
build/create/expand an empireEntrepreneur Rocco Fortebuilthis empire frombudgethotelsandmotorwayservices.
control/run an empireBesidesrunningafashionempire, he alsofunctionedasdirectorof no less than threebanks.
anentertainment/media/publishingempire
abusiness/propertyempire
agobal/international/worldwideempire
(Definition ofempirefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofempire

empire
Accordingly, these stories demonstrate outright skepticism of the empire's civilizing mission.
From theCambridge English Corpus
She agrees with recent scholarship that has demonstrated that the rise of notables did not necessarily bring about the empire's decline (p. 6).
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Liberals, too, were part of the empire's governing establishment.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Without a doubt, this is by far the best recent general book on empires available, and it deserves the widest possible readership.
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The former sought to argue, using various examples of imperial rise and decline, that all empires followed the same trajectory ; that they all eventually collapsed.
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Tensions between the foreign ministries of the two empires derived largely from their very different concepts regarding citizenship.
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They inform us about the aspirations the travelers pursued in these empires and what activities they carried out.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In general the benefits of empires have usually been concentrated in the hands of the few, and the costs spread over taxpayers at large.
From theCambridge English Corpus
There are also two papers which have nothing to do with the seaborne empires.
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No small part, therefore, originated from the tsarist empire's emergent middle class.
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Captives demonstrates the timeless way in which militarily powerful empires can be reduced to vulnerability by preying upon their citizens.
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The 1970s/1980s pub performance continues to be romanticised by musicians, promoters, managers and venue owners who established considerable commercial empires during the period.
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Without immense determination, without the sights set on unreachable targets, the empires could not have been won.
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The metaphor of organism for international order prevailed in most of the rearranged empires.
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One difficulty was thus that the new, dispersed empires seemed to require a diversity of laws and political principles.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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Collocationswithempire

empire

These are words often used in combination withempire.

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business empire
They used the yardstick of western values to criticize other families who had in their eyes used political power to build abusinessempire.
From theCambridge English Corpus
empire builder
I cannot, therefore, be accused of being anempirebuilder.
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Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
entire empire
In these accounts, the factory product is a synecdoche for theentireempire-wide and subject-deep factory system.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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