robber baron English

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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.

— morally questionable business tycoon

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Russia's robber-baron capitalism lacks the kind of effective regulation that creates trust in market relationships.

The United States, too, went though a period of robber-baron industrialization in the 1870's and 1880's.