empire

柯林斯詞典

1. N-COUNT An empire is a number of individual nations that are all controlled by the government or ruler of one particular country. 帝國(guó)
...the Roman Empire. …羅馬帝國(guó)。
2. N-COUNT You can refer to a group of companies controlled by one person as an empire. 企業(yè)帝國(guó)
...the global Murdoch media empire. …默多克環(huán)球媒體帝國(guó)。

the tsarist empire
the Austro-Hungarian empire
It used to be said that Britain ruled an empire on which the sun would never set.
The temple ruins are a distant reminder of a vanished empire.
This century saw the dismemberment of the empire.

He owns a huge publishing empire.
Carter rapidly expanded his business empire.
It is the world's largest media and entertainment empire.
His corporate empire collapsed and about $666 million of pension fund assets were found to be missing .
Her business empire brought her wealth beyond the dreams of avarice .