miniempire

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English

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Etymology

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From mini- +‎ empire.

Noun

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miniempire (plural miniempires)

  1. A small empire.
    • 2007 September 30, Whitney Joiner, “The Marriage Is Over, but the Show Goes On”, in New York Times[1]:
      In a place where crew members had grown so accustomed to regularly working with Troublemaker that some had picked up and moved here from Los Angeles — Ms. Avellan lovingly refers to them as her children — the dissolution of the marriage raised the obvious question: What would become of the moviemaking miniempire they had built together?

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