Definition of taipan noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

taipan

noun

/ˈtaɪpæn/

(from Chinese)

a foreign person who is in charge of a business in China

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Word Originsense 1 mid 19th cent.: from Chinese (Cantonese dialect) daaihbāan.sense 2 1930s: from Wik Munkan (an extinct Aboriginal language of North Queensland) dhayban.

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