Big Four

English Alternative forms en Big 4 Proper noun p 1 Big Four en historical The four top Allied powers of World War I and their leaders: David Lloyd George of Britain, Georges Clemenceau of France, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy and Woodrow Wilson of the United States, who met at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 at Versailles. en Council of Four The Four Nations A group of four entrepreneurs who formed the Central Pacific Railroad. en music A jazz rhythm derived from the marching band beat. Any group of four major or largest corporations in a given industry, especially when such a small group has oligopoly or near-oligopoly. en finance The four largest banks in any of various countries, or (internationally) the Federal Reserve, People's Bank of China, Bank of Japan and European Central Bank. en Kevin Peachey Big banks accused of doing little for savers BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67263369 news BBC 2023-10-30 Banks have been reporting their results in recent days, with HSBC the latest to reveal higher profits. It is one of the so-called big four, which also includes Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest. ¶ In response. Harriett Baldwin, who chairs the Treasury Committee, said: "The big four banks have been far too slow to reward savers through better rates on instant access savings accounts." https://web.archive.org/web/20250809013301/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67263369 9 August 2025 en Big Tech en finance business technology The four largest corporations of Big Tech during the 2000s–2020s, usually defined as Alphabet (f.k.a. Google), Meta (f.k.a. Facebook), Amazon and Apple Inc. Apple. en Gang of Four weekend 2026-07-25 US tech giants slash 140,000 jobs Rafe Rosner-Uddin; Clara Murray 1 The Big Four “hyperscalers”—Amazon, Alphabet, Meta and Microsoft—expect to deploy a combined $725bn of capital expenditure this year on data centres. en business accounting The four largest global auditing firms, comprising Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), KPMG and PwC. weekend Stephen Foley; Michael O'Dwyer 2023-11-04 Engineer pulls off structural change to lead Big Four firm 13 That earned him a professional license he would need if he wanted to rise to the role of US senior partner at PwC, where he leads the Big Four firm's global advisory business and is co-head of its US consulting practice. en UK historical The four largest railway companies in the United Kingdom in the period 1923–1947: the Great Western Railway (GWR); the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS); the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER); and the Southern Railway (UK) Southern Railway (SR). en 1951 April D. S. Barrie British Railways: A Survey, 1948-1950 Railway Magazine 600 223-224 In several respects, the conditions which prevailed when this great venture was begun differed greatly from those in which the "Big Four" companies had embarked upon their previous regime in 1923. en fashion The clothing trade shows (“fashion weeks”) in Paris, London, New York and Milan. Coordinate terms en Big One/en big one, en big two, en Big Three, en big five, en big six, en big eight See also en big business en Apple Inc. Four Google