empire

柯林斯词典

1. N-COUNT An empire is a number of individual nations that are all controlled by the government or ruler of one particular country. 帝国
...the Roman Empire. …罗马帝国。
2. N-COUNT You can refer to a group of companies controlled by one person as an empire. 企业帝国
...the global Murdoch media empire. …默多克环球媒体帝国。

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 .