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centimillion en · NUM

Etymology

From centi- (“hundred”) + million.

Meanings

1. Hundred million.
   • If person i has M centimillion dollars, he will make the sum over j of n_(Mij) be 1 mod 21. 2000, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, volume 25, →ISSN, page 145:
   • Over the next forty years—until the advent of a world war—the vast majority of the population might struggle to keep up with the Joneses. But for a fistful of Robber Barons with their centimillions the challenge was keeping up with the Vanderbilts. 1974, Allen Churchill, “The Terrifying Commodore”, in The Splendor Seekers: An Informal Glimpse of America’s Multimillionaire Spenders—Members of the $50,000,000 Club, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, pages 16–17:
   • Davey Reed had always been impressed by Emerson Foster. Foster was smart and smooth and knew who he was, and he stayed concentrated on things; he set goals, little goals and big goals, and he pursued them until he reached them, the little ones and the big ones. Which was how he’d become a centimillionaire, none of it inherited. / But no. Reed was thinking, there had to be something more. Reed could concentrate and he set goals all the time, but he didn’t have a cent, much less a centimillion. 1985, Stan Lee [i.e., Stanley R. Lee], “The Conspirators”, in Dunn’s Conundrum, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 313:
   • [Youssef] Beidas was the founder and head of Intra Bank, a centimillion-dollar banking organization with main headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, and branches just about everywhere, including the United States. 1972, Béla W[illiam] von Block, Super-Detective: The Many Lives of Tom Ponzi, Europe’s Master Investigator, Chicago, Ill.: Playboy Press, →LCCN, page 168:

Forms

Relateds

centimillionaire · centibillion

Synonyms

hectomillion

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