Usually means: Wealthy industrialist with exploitative practices.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. robber baron: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. robber baron: Merriam-Webster
  3. robber baron: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. robber baron: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. robber baron: Collins English Dictionary
  6. robber-baron: Wordnik
  7. robber-baron, robber baron: Wiktionary
  8. robber baron: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. robber baron: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. robber baron: Dictionary.com
  11. Robber baron (disambiguation), Robber baron (feudalism), Robber baron (industrialist), Robber baron: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. robber baron: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Robber Baron: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (robber baron)

noun:  (historical) In Europe, an aristocrat who charged exorbitant fees or otherwise exacted money from people who journeyed across land or waterways which he controlled.
noun:  (chiefly US, idiomatic, usually derogatory) Especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries, a business tycoon who had great wealth and influence but whose methods were morally questionable and often unethical.

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