Definition of "magnates" []

• Plural form of magnate. (noun)

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• "Jazz-age New York, complete with jaded journalists, drug-addicted nightclub singers and power-mad industrial magnates, is an inviting cosmos and a perfect setting for Esko's driving ambition to flourish."
• "By 1879, the League's owners -- they referred to themselves as "magnates" -- had had it with players who would "revolve" from one club to another during a season in order to pick up a few extra dollars."
• ""And so we came to Battimansa, where the river was narrowed down to about a mile in breadth," where Cadamosto offered presents to the King, and made a great speech before the negro magnates, which is abridged in the narrative, "lest the matter should become a great Iliad.""