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COOKE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the American Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905)
Synonyms:
Cooke; Jay Cooke
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
financier; moneyman (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States journalist (born in England in 1908)
Synonyms:
Alfred Alistair Cooke; Alistair Cooke; Cooke
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
journalist (a writer for newspapers and magazines)
Domain region:
England (a division of the United Kingdom)
