megamillionaire
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From mega- + millionaire or megamillion + -aire.
Noun
[edit]megamillionaire (plural megamillionaires)
- A person who has many times more than one million units of the local currency, but who is not a billionaire.
- 1989 March 31, David Moberg, “The Fuel of a New Machine”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- Justin Dart, the megamillionaire plastics king, a financial backer of Ronald Reagan, once observed that "a dialogue with politicians is a fine thing, but with a little money, they hear you better."
- 2001 November 9, Michael Miner, “In These Times Loses a Fortune/Sun-Times Goes Down to the Wire”, in Chicago Reader[2]:
- Fourteen months ago, the threadbare journal on Milwaukee Avenue was taken over by a Silicon Valley megamillionaire with a social conscience who vowed to put In These Times on the map.