conglomeratorn.
Originally and chiefly U.S.
One who founds a conglomerate (sense 3).
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > non-manual worker > businessman > [noun] > one who forms conglomerate
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1968 N.Y. Times 3 June 43 Conglomerateers—people who buy an old bra company, change its name to Space Age Materials and go public.
1968 N.Y. Times Mag. 27 Oct. 144/4 Conglomerate entrepreneurs—or conglomerators—must raise the price–earnings ratios of their stock if they are to expand.
1969 Sunday Times 20 Apr. 27 It comes as a pleasant surprise to find this Scots conglomerator bringing Scottish, English and European textiles to the market on a modest..forward P/E of 11.6.
1971 Time 11 Jan. 31 Conglomerateur Charles Bluhdorn figured that Evans was just the man to run Gulf & Western's new bauble, Paramount.
1975 R. H. Rimmer Premar Exper. (1976) ii. 196 I suspected that life with the great conglomerator was not all sugar and cream.
1984 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Dec. 1444/1 A wheeler-dealer..who may remind others of all too many would-be conglomerators in the City of London.
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