centimillionaire en · NOUN
Etymology
From centi- + millionaire.
Meanings
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A person whose wealth amounts to 100 million dollars (or other currency unit).
[…] at least 153 Americans who are "centimillionaires" — worth more than $100 million each […]
1981, Thomas R. Dye, Luther Harmon Zeigler, The Irony of Democracy, page 123:Executive Jet […] was subsequently acquired by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway company, making Santulli a centimillionaire.
2002, Dinesh D'Souza, The Virtue of Prosperity, page 98:But, as chronicled by Peter Turchin in End Times, his book on elite excess and what it portends, today there are far more centimillionaires and billionaires than there were in the gilded age, and they have collectively accumulated a much larger proportion of the world’s wealth.
2023 November 25, Douglas Rushkoff, “‘We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| centimillionaires | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
centibillionaire · centimillion