Crossword clues for billionaire
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1844, American English, from billion on model of millionaire. The first in the U.S. likely was John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), some time after World War I.
Wiktionary
n. Somebody whose wealth is greater than one billion (109) dollars, or other currency.
WordNet
n. a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at more than a billion dollars
Wikipedia
A billionaire, in countries that use the short scale number naming system, is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000; a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually major currencies such as the United States dollar, the euro, or the pound sterling. The American business magazine Forbes produces a complete global list of known U.S. dollar billionaires every year, and updates an Internet version of this list in real time. The American oil magnate John D. Rockefeller became the world's first confirmed U.S. dollar billionaire in 1916; as of 2015, there are over 1,800 U.S. dollar billionaires worldwide, with a combined wealth of over US$7 trillion.
A billionaire is a person who has a net worth of at least one billion units of a currency.
Billionaire(s) also may refer to:
- Billionaire (card game) or Pit, a commodity-trading card game
- "Billionaire" (song), a song by Travie McCoy ft. Bruno Mars
- "Billionaire", a song by Peaches from I Feel Cream
"Billionaire" is the debut single by American recording artist Travie McCoy, featuring guest vocals from Bruno Mars. It is the lead single from McCoy's debut studio album, Lazarus. The song was produced by The Smeezingtons, which consists of Mars, Philip Lawrence and Ari Levine. Lyrically, McCoy imagines what would happen if he became a billionaire, referencing all the good he would do to others with the money along with his desire to be on the cover of Forbes magazine, "smiling next to Oprah and The Queen". As of July 2011, the song has sold 3 million digital downloads, making it Mars' third single to do so. The song was also included in Mars' performance in Super Bowl XLVIII halftime show in 2014.
Usage examples of "billionaire".
Schuyler Kimball, playboy billionaire, to know the man would never have a woman like this in his employ without sampling her personal wares on a regular basis.
After all, what kind of self-respecting billionaire would run out of maraschino cherries?
To say that the billionaire looked uninterested in her arrival would have been a gross understatement.
Of course, from the start, Leo had suspected the billionaire was the one who was behind the amazing disappearing millions.
On the outside, he was a wealthy, sophisticated, vaguely eccentric billionaire who cared about little other than his own satisfaction.
Kimball might be able to shed some light on the situation, Leo turned to the billionaire, who stood beside Lily, sipping his martini without a care.
Laura Aldrich is summoned to the estate of eccentric billionaire Joseph Gray.
Gray the billionaire, the industrialist, the smartest, most capable man in the history of the world speaking.
She had gone from being the future wife of a billionaire to a woman whose sole possession was a tattered dress.
Silicon Valley billionaire buddies from AOL and Oracle, the US Justice Department compelled Microsoft to divulge its proprietary codes and license Windows software to the Gore-Techs at a government-capped price.
Snowden was forced to resign as chairman of GTech when a jury found he tried to bribe British billionaire Richard Branson.
Barnett, my partner at the Observer, would find out the secret billionaire was Lord Sainsbury, rewarded by Blair with a cabinet post most helpful to his business interests in genetically modified food production.
He was a billionaire, one of those billionaires that no one ever hears about.
But in a burst of chivalry, the elderly billionaire, played by Richard Attenborough, offers to go in her stead.
The elderly billionaire is just old-fashioned enough to think that a man should not let a woman risk her life while he sits around doing nothing.