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robber baronnoun
In Europe, an aristocrat who charged exorbitant fees or otherwise exacted money from people who journeyed across land or waterways which he controlled.
robber baronnoun
Especially in the 19th-century and early 20th-century, a business tycoon who had great wealth and influence but whose methods were morally questionable.
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Robber baron
A robber baron or robber knight was an unscrupulous and despotic noble of the medieval period in Europe. The term has slightly different meanings in different countries. In modern U.S. parlance, the term is also used to describe unscrupulous industrialists. Robber baron behavior among the Germanic warrior class in medieval Europe indirectly led to the Catholic innovations of the Peace and Truce of God.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of robber baron in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of robber baron in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of robber baron in a Sentence
Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
We ought to break them up, at the end of the day, here's the deal: The last thing America needs is another Big Tech robber baron who doesn't care anything for free speech, and that's exactly what Twitter is giving us.
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- voleur baronFrench
- perampok baronIndonesian
- barone ladroItalian
- ದರೋಡೆ ಬ್ಯಾರನ್Kannada
- கொள்ளைக்காரன் பரோன்Tamil
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