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Definition of
taipan noun
from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
taipan
noun
noun
NAmE
/
/
ˈtaɪpæn
/
/
(
from Chinese
)
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1
a foreign person who is in charge of a business in China
2
an extremely poisonous Australian snake
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taipan
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