Meaning of captain of industry | Babel Free

Definitions

A prominent business person who owns, or is the highest-ranking executive of, one or more major firms, especially one who has considerable wealth and influence.

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Examples

“Plugson, who has indomitably spun Cotton merely to gain thousands of pounds . . . was a Captain of Industry, born member of the Ultimate genuine Aristocracy of this Universe, could he have known it!”

“Walter Bassett was the greatest captain of industry west of the Rockies, and was one of the small group that controlled the nation in everything but name.”

“It was he who maneuvered a captain of industry, steelmaker Francis Mer, rather than a government mandarin into the finance minister's job.”

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