empire
Example Sentences
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The siblings found a route out of poverty by building up an empire of betting shops, amassing themselves a billion-pound family fortune after leaving school at 15 with no qualifications.
From BBC
The Abu Dhabi entity shares a U.A.E. office address with several other companies in the sheikh’s broader business empire.
The idea of watching a carefully lit, heavily scored portrait of Melania in a movie theater feels less like satire and more like homework about decaying empires.
From Salon
Inside his empire, companies regularly share resources, including employees.
No arguments there; but there are certainly a few to be had with Mr. Dalrymple’s fourth so-called partition, that of Princely India—the nominally independent protectorates that constituted almost a third of the Indian empire.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
