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taipan

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
taipan1 /ˈtʌɪpan/

▶noun a foreigner who is head of a business in China.

– origin C19: from Chin. (Cantonese dial.) daaihbāan.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
taipan2 /ˈtʌɪpan/

▶noun a large, brown, highly venomous Australian snake. [Oxyuranus scutellatus.]

– origin 1930s: from dhayban, the name in an extinct Aborig. lang.

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