- Big Four
Big Four or The Big Four may refer to:
Companies
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Big Four (companies)
**Record labels:Sony BMG ,EMI ,Universal Music Group ,Warner Music Group
**American television networks: ABC,NBC ,CBS ,FOX
*Big Four (banks) , in various countries
*Big Four auditors ,PricewaterhouseCoopers ,Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu ,Ernst & Young , andKPMG
*The "Big Four"law firm s or "Global Quartet", i.e. the Magic Circle minusSlaughter and May which has in general not pursued international expansion
*The Big Four , owners of theCentral Pacific Railroad
*The Big Four railway companies in Argentina, prior to railway nationalisation in 1948, were the broad-gauge British-owned Buenos Aires Western, the Buenos Aires and Pacific, the Central Argentine and the Buenos Aires and Pacific Railway.
*Big Four British railway companies , the four largest railway companies in the United Kingdom in the period 1923-1947
*Zaibatsu:Mitsubishi ,Mitsui ,Sumitomo and Yasuda are the most historically significantzaibatsu groups
*The Big Four (WWI) , leaders who met inFrance after an armistice ofWorld War I , includingWoodrow Wilson of theUnited States ,David Lloyd George of Britain,Vittorio Orlando ofItaly , andGeorges Clemenceau ofFrance .
*Big Four Railroad, another name for the now defunctCleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railway port
* The Big Four major sports leagues in North America: The National Football League, Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League
* Big Four (English football), Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool, who have been the dominant forces in the Premier League in recent years.
*Big Four of Maryland Thoroughbred racing Places
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Big Four, West Virginia , United States.
*Big Four Bridge (Louisville) , Kentucky, United States. [Harrowdown Hill]
*Big Four Mountain , Snohomish County, Washington, United States.nakes
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Big Four (Indian snakes) , the deadliest of India's venomous snakes.Other
* The Big 4 is a daily
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* The 'Big Four', the dominant diplomatic figures at theParis Peace Conference, 1919 (Georges Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France; David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States; and Vittorio Orlando, Prime Minister of Italy)
* "The Big Four" (novel), by Agatha Christie.
*Chicago's Big Four (debutantes) , four prominent Chicago debutantes duringWorld War I .
* The "Big Four Biker Gangs" - according to the United StatesFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) andCanadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), the four largest Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (OMG)
* The "Big Four" Americanthrash metal bands: Anthrax,Megadeth ,Metallica andSlayer .
* The "Big Four" Americangrunge bands: Nirvana,Pearl Jam ,Alice in Chains andSoundgarden .
* The "Big Four"progressive metal bands:Dream Theater ,Pain of Salvation ,Porcupine Tree andOpeth .
* The "Big Four" countries of theEuropean Union (Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom).
* The "Big Four" countries of theEurovision Song Contest (Germany, France, Spain and the United Kingdom) who since 2000 are automatically qualified for the final regardless of their results from the previous year.References
ee also
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Big One
*Big Two
*Big Three
*Big Five
*Big Six
*Big Seven
*Big Eight
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Big Four — noun A collective name for the four largest UK clearing banks: HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Barclays and the Royal Bank of Scotland • • • Main Entry: ↑big … Useful english dictionary
Big Four — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Big Four signifie en anglais les quatre (plus) grands. Il peut s agir de : Sommaire 1 Personnalités 2 Toponymes … Wikipédia en Français
Big Four — four great nations that participated in the treaty of Versailles in 1919 … English contemporary dictionary
Big Four — Bịg Four [ fɔː; englisch »die großen Vier«], die vier großen Londoner Depositenbanken: Barclays Bank, Lloyds Bank, Midland Bank und National Westminster Bank. Entsprechend heißen Schweizerische Bankgesellschaft, Schweizerischer Bankverein und… … Universal-Lexikon
Big Four — 1) The major High Street or commercial banks in the UK: Barclays (now incorporating the Woolwich), Lloyds TSB, HSBC (formerly Midland), and NatWest (now owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland). In terms of market capitalization the four were joined… … Big dictionary of business and management
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Big Four — /bɪg fɔ:/ noun 1. the four large British commercial banks: Barclays, LloydsTSB, HSBC and Natwest (now joined by several former building societies that have become banks) 2. the four largest Japanese securities houses: Daiwa, Nikko, Nomura and… … Dictionary of banking and finance
Big Four — /bɪg ˈfɔ/ (say big faw) noun the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and France in the United Nations in the period immediately following World War II … Australian English dictionary
