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taipan
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taipan1
a large highly venomous elapid snake, Oxyuranus scutellatus, of NE Australia
taipan2
the foreign head of a business in China


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Those protests were echoed by both British and Chinese taipans - the big businessmen who have accumulated hundreds of millions, even billions, of dollars.
City of bad omens by Elegant, Robert / The National Interest
This may level the playing surface for other Western companies previously foreclosed upon by the Taipans.
Hong Kong playing field levels for U.S. companies as 1997 nears by Torre, Richard / Los Angeles Business Journal
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