0 a low-ranking male member of the nobility (= group of people from a high social class)
1 a person who is extremely powerful in a particular area of business:
The king's barons together attempted to restrain him from innovatory acts of misgovernment.
The government derived no less than 43% of its annual revenue from taxes paid by the sugar barons.
The creation of new earls and marquesses inevitably led the more senior barons and earls to demand restoration of their pre-eminence.
Early each day, the baron himself would select one out of the twenty-five animals printed on the tickets.
Sitting in judgement, the king complained of the insult to his dignity, and likewise each of the barons condemned the monks.
If such central direction had been attempted, most likely it would have been firmly resisted by powerful committee barons.
On the third day after a council, the king with his barons, on their way to a conference, turned their way to the monastery.
Apparently, some commanders in the army are virtual barons, whose troops are personally loyal to them.
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