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nabob
Part of speech: NounA native governor of a province in India; any very rich man.
Usage examples "nabob":- Lord Mowbray was the grandson of a waiter, who had gone out to India a gentleman's valet, and returned a nabob. - "The World's Greatest Books, Vol III", Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds..
- By Miss Campbell 50 10. The Nabob at Home 50 11. Ernest Maltravers. - "Publisher's Advertising (1872)", Anonymous.
- Your Committee find that the late Lord Clive constantly asserted that the salt trade in Bengal had been a monopoly time immemorial,- that it ever was and ever must be a monopoly,- and that Coja Wazid, and other merchants long before him, had given to the Nabob and his ministers two hundred thousand pounds per annum for the exclusive privilege. - "The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VIII. (of 12)", Edmund Burke.