magnate

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a person who is very rich and successful in business or industry:

a well-known shipping magnate

a person who is very successful, powerful, and rich, esp. in a particular business:

a real estate/media magnate

someone who has become very rich and successful in business or industry, especially someone who owns a large organization that they started themselves:

a newspaper/oil/shipping/steel, etc. magnate Jacqueline Kennedy married the Greek shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis.