quintillionaire
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From quintillion + -aire.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]quintillionaire (plural quintillionaires)
- Somebody whose wealth is at least one quintillion (1018) currency units.
- 1961, General Practitioner - Volume 24, page 80:
- He favors letting the gentleman establish the trusts because he's quite sure that by 2961, $89 quadrillion dollars probably won't buy one box of good cigars. By then, he adds, everyone will be a quintillionaire, struggling to make ends meet.
- 2012, Willis Bryant, Cold Blood, →ISBN, page 48:
- The constellation Norma had Normaesque constellations . . . the world's richest man was the first quintillionaire, formerly a decillionaire, after losing a lot of his money, and his Moira Sheareresque name was Hanksy Ronald Stump, and he pissed on the skeleton of Donald Trump.
- 2015, Edward Stasheff, Marcus Johnston, Predatory Practices, →ISBN:
- If Heth could have motivated assembly line workers to move that fast, he'd be a quintillionaire.
- 2020, Mark Fenton-O'Creevy, International management: An institutional perspective, The Open University:
- There are no more trillionaires, quadrillionaires, or quintillionaires in Zimbabwe. This followed the slashing of 10 zeros from the Zimbabwean currency by the central bank.