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Vocabulary Building Blocks: (45 Down) magnate (NOUN) 1. A very wealthy or powerful business leader. 2. One notable or powerful, especially in industry. Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon. (In the history of the United States, "magnate" was commonly used as a synonym for the individuals who built the railroad empires of the 19th-century. For example, John Pierpont Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, James Hill, and others.) [Derived from Late Latin magnus "great".]
Did You Know? (22 Across) It has been estimated that close to 30 million people are playing fantasy football this season. Fantasy football has grown consistently over the years with new innovations in Internet technology and competitiveness between the sites that offer access to the game.
The different types of leagues in which fantasy football contests are held include head-to-head, where individual teams are paired against each other on a weekly schedule; rotisserie leagues, in which predetermined stats of the professional players are tabulated over the season to determine the final winner; keeper leagues in which the team's players are kept for subsequent seasons; and salary cap leagues, in which each team owner is given a set amount of virtual money to buy and build a roster of players.
Most fantasy football leagues designate the last few games of the actual regular season as the fantasy league's "playoff" and "championship".
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