0 a group of countries ruled by a single person, government, or country: --
1 a very large and important business or organization: --
2 a group of countries ruled by a single person, government, or country: --
the British/Soviet Empire
3 a large group of businesses that are controlled by a powerful company or person: --
a gobal/international/worldwide empire
an entertainment/media/publishing empire
control/run an empire Besides running a fashion empire, he also functioned as director of no less than three banks.
build/create/expand an empire Entrepreneur Rocco Forte built his empire from budget hotels and motorway services.
One difficulty was thus that the new, dispersed empires seemed to require a diversity of laws and political principles.
The metaphor of organism for international order prevailed in most of the rearranged empires.
Without immense determination, without the sights set on unreachable targets, the empires could not have been won.
The 1970s/1980s pub performance continues to be romanticised by musicians, promoters, managers and venue owners who established considerable commercial empires during the period.
Captives demonstrates the timeless way in which militarily powerful empires can be reduced to vulnerability by preying upon their citizens.
No small part, therefore, originated from the tsarist empire's emergent middle class.
There are also two papers which have nothing to do with the seaborne empires.
In general the benefits of empires have usually been concentrated in the hands of the few, and the costs spread over taxpayers at large.
