1) Big cheese 2) Big cheese, so to speak 3) Big shot 4) Big wheel 5) Big wheel or fat cat 6) Bigwig 7) Biz vip 8) Business bigwig 9) Canadian brand 10) Dignitary 11) Fat cat 12) Fat cat in business 13) Fat cat in the business sense 14) Fat cat, so to speak 15) Governor 16) Heavy hitter 17) High muckamuck
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1) Big cheese 2) Bigshot 3) Bigwig 4) Fat cat 5) Nawab 6) Vip
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A nabob b is an Anglo-Indian term for a conspicuously wealthy man who made his fortune in the Orient, especially in the Indian subcontinent. It also refers to an East India Company servant who had become wealthy through corrupt trade and other practices. Nabob literally means `deputy governor` or `viceroy` in the Mughal Empire rule of India. T...
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• (n.) A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire. • (n.) One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth. • (n.) One who returns to Europe from the East with immense riches: hence, any man of great wealth. • (n.) A deputy or viceroy in India; a ...
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18th- and 19th-century nickname for those who made their fortune in India, a corruption of the Mogul royal title nawab. The name became widespread when many `nabobs` returned to England and...
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Na'bob (nā'bŏb)
noun [ Hind.
nawāb , from Arabic
nawāb , plural of
nāïb a vicegerent, governor. Cf
Nawab .]
1. A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire.
2. One who returns to Euro...
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Nabob was a term of derision applied in the 18th century to those East India Company servants who had amassed fortunes in India, sometimes unscrupulously, which they then used for bettering their economic and social positions in England. The term is corrupted from the Persian title nawab, which originally designated governors administering Indian p...
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n] - a wealthy man (who made his fortune in the Orient)
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noun a wealthy man (especially one who made his fortune in the Orient)
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any very wealthy, influential, or powerful person. · a person, esp. a European, who has made a large fortune in India or another country of the East. · nawab (def. 1).
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