taipan
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈtʌɪpan/
taipan (plural taipans)
- A foreign businessman in China; a tycoon. [from 19th c.]
- 1922, W. Somerset Maugham, "The Taipan":
- Of course it was very sad, but the taipan could hardly help a smile when he thought how many of these young fellows he had drunk underground.
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 438:
- The British taipans stood in one sodden circle with their womenfolk, like bored officers at a garrison get-together.
- 1922, W. Somerset Maugham, "The Taipan":
taipan (plural taipans)
- Any venomous elapid snake of the genus Oxyuranus, found in Australia and New Guinea. [from 20th c.]
- German: Taipane
- Portuguese: taipan
- Russian: тайпа́н
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