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单词 empire builder
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empire buildern.

Brit. /ˈɛmpʌɪə ˌbɪldə/, U.S. /ˈɛmˌpaɪ(ə)r ˌbɪldər/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: empire n., builder n.
Etymology: < empire n. + builder n. Compare empire-building adj.
1. A person who brings additional territory under the control of an empire; (spec.) a British administrator who establishes or runs a colony of the British Empire (now historical). Also figurative.
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1856 Charleston (S. Carolina) Mercury 28 Oct. The Vikings and empire-builders of the modern world—may there find open and ample fields for their enterprise.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 30 June 6/1 A reference to Mr. Cecil Rhodes's work as empire-builder.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 10 June 7/1 As if Shakespeare and Burns and Bunyan and Swift and all the rest of that superb gallery were not the greatest of British Empire-builders.
1927 V. Woolf in Forum May 709 Her dreams of living in India, married to..some empire builder.
1966 V. Nabokov Speak, Memory (U.S. rev. ed.) xiii. 264 A kind of family circle has gradually been formed, linking representatives of all nations, jolly empire-builders in their jungle clearings, French policemen..Russian or Polish pogromshchik.
1990 Voice of Arab World 25 Dec. 24 Saddam..can be patently sincere. He is an empire builder with a mission.
2. Within an organization: a person who seeks to gain more power, responsibility, staff, etc., typically for reasons of self-aggrandizement rather than for the wider benefit. Usually depreciative.
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society > authority > power > [noun] > pursuit of power > one who
power seeker1858
empire builder1944
1944 Factory Managem. & Maintenance Oct. s16/3 Don't be an empire builder.
1959 Cambr. Rev. 2 May 456/1 There are..two strands running through the [Civil] service..: there is the attitude of ‘passed to you’, and the approach of the empire builder.
1970 D. Devine Illegal Tender ii. 20 Wainwright was solely to blame for the inter-departmental tension. He was said to be an empire-builder.
1997 J. Hynes Publish & Perish 200 Her graduate department at Midwestern had been a vipers' nest of big egos, empire builders, and campus politicians.
2006 D. Finnigan & M. Karasu Next Stop, Corner Office i. 9 Do peers in other departments accuse you of being an empire builder (or a talent raider)?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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