Examples of “taipan” in a Sentence

noun A foreign business executive or tycoon, especially historically in China.

• Of course it was very sad, but the taipan could hardly help a smile when he thought how many of these young fellows he had drunk underground. — W. Somerset Maugham, The Taipan (1922)
• The British taipans stood in one sodden circle with their womenfolk, like bored officers at a garrison get-together. — John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (1977)
• The old taipan ran his trading firm from a Hong Kong office overlooking the harbor.

noun Any of several highly venomous Australian snakes of the genus Oxyuranus.

• The inland taipan is considered the most venomous snake in the world.