baron

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This was the age of robber barons like John D. Rockefeller, whose Standard Oil was a business “trust” comprising dozens of companies in numerous vertically linked industries.

From Barron's

This was the age of robber barons like John D. Rockefeller, whose Standard Oil was a business “trust” comprising dozens of companies in numerous vertically linked industries.

From Barron's

Government and private money are flowing in quantities that would make a Gilded Age robber baron blush.

From MarketWatch

Mr McCann told the Today programme: "It's quite obvious that press barons can meet the prime minister, but the people who have suffered at the hands of them can't."

From BBC

"Most farmers are not wealthy land barons; they live hand to mouth on tiny and sometimes non-existent profit margins."

From BBC