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单词 drug baron
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drug baron
drug baron n. (a) a wealthy or influential person in the pharmaceutical industry (now rare); (b) a person who controls an organization trading in illegal drugs, esp. one who heads an extensive network involved in production, trafficking, and dealing.
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1914 E. Peple & L. Lauferty Pair of Sixes xii. 192 The President of the Northwestern Drug Company was..the greatest drug baron of the Middle West.
1917 Washington Post 15 Apr. (Mag. section) 4/2 Internal revenue officers..admit that they are baffled in their efforts to unmask the drug barons in the inner shrine of the dope hierarchy.
1933 Times 21 Mar. 13/5 A chapter entitled ‘The Drug Barons of Europe’..gives an account of one of the most important groups of international drug traffickers in the world.
1977 Washington Post (Nexis) 12 June d7 The film stars..Lou Gossett as the Bermudian drug baron.
2001 Independent 6 Mar. i. 4/7 Up to $650m a year could be confiscated from suspected crime bosses and drug barons under proposals for laws to tackle gangsters who manage to evade criminal prosecution.
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