0 something that is extremely large and often extremely powerful:
1 an extremely large and powerful company or organization:
The motivation was to create a $70 billion behemoth out of two embattled phone-equipment companies, so together they could survive .
a corporate/financial/industrial behemoth
Rather, these two literary behemoths hold ' ' opposed concepts of a new syntax and a new vocabulary ' ' forged in the search for a common literary goal (242).
The behemoth took a gulp, swallowed this vast dollop of cash, the inequalities continued and the great giant came up for more.
There is increasing inequality between the coastal and inland provinces; the behemoths of central planning are still in place, requiring to be dismantled.
Behemoths are being created which impose their terms; in other words, we have a monopoly situation.
We are therefore debating an economic, historical, cultural and commercial behemoth which today appears to be awakening from a long slumber.
Our media industry now earns more for us than the lumbering behemoths of nationalised industries ever did.
These behemoths clog up our urban roads, but their fuel efficiencies are disgracefully low.
This extension will only profit the monopoly behemoths, the multinational companies in the music, show and entertainment industry which will continue to grow rich from the creations of others.
