taipan

tai·pan ¹  (tpn)

n.

1. A foreign businessman or a trader in China.

2. A foreigner who is a chief executive of a business or company operating in China; a tycoon.

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[Chinese (Cantonese) taaî-paan, eminent businessman, head of a firm, equivalent to Chinese (Mandarin) tái, big + bn, class.]

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taipan

Noun

a large poisonous Australian snake [Aboriginal]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

taipan - large highly venomous snake of northeastern Australia Oxyuranus scutellatus elapid, elapid snake - any of numerous venomous fanged snakes of warmer parts of both hemispheres genus Oxyuranus, Oxyuranus - taipans