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millionaire

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Millionaire is a management game originally written for the ZX Spectrum by John Hunt and ported to the Acorn Electron and BBC Micro .

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Millionaire \Mil`lion*aire"\ (?; 277), n. [F. millionnaire.] One whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more. [Written also millionnaire .]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES self-made man/millionaire/businessman Who Wants to be a Millionaire? COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE new ▪ The enterprise culture was born and the number of new paper millionaires mushroomed from around 5,000 to ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Somebody whose wealth is greater than one million units of the local currency

Usage examples of millionaire.

Any society that will put Barger in jail and make Al Davis a respectable millionaire at the same time is not a society to be trifled with.

Compare me with one of those rascals who disseminate phossy jaw and lead poisons, compare me with a millionaire who runs a music hall with an eye to feminine talent, or an underwriter, or the common stockbroker.

The bronze man had no means of knowing about the cigars the millionaire and shoe shiner had smoked.

For the first time in his life he saw the point of being a millionaire and suddenly, and also for the first time, he thought that there might be more to this man Spang than he had reckoned with.

The man who was trailing Silk Elverton was Foulkrod Kendall, the millionaire tableware manufacturer!

There are millionaires working for Cotter with undescended testicles and training bras.

What kind of person in a university would target alums who became millionaires?

The blond receptionist had informed Doc Savage that a man named Birmingham Jones had seen the millionaire shortly before Doc himself.

For it was one of her dreams, perhaps the six hundred and seventy-ninth in the series, that one day she would sit at a desk answering innumerable telephone calls with projecting jaw, as millionaires do on the movies, and crushing rivals like blackbeetles in order that, after being reviled by the foolish as a heartless plutocrat, she might hand a gigantic Trust over to the Socialist State.

About a hundred yards from the cenote was a small but elaborate stone pyramid, closely guarded by men with rifles, which had been erected over the bombproof shelter of the American millionaire, Owens.

Her husband, Nicky Brompton, heir to a dukedom, called himself a farmer and omitted to specify that the estates on whose income his family was maintained comprised three thousand arable acres in Gloucestershire and East Anglia, a hundred times as much in Costa Rica with two gold mines beneath, and a district of London where luxury apartments leased by lesser millionaires rubbed buttresses with i92os model tenements built by Brompton Trust.

The attendant on duty at the club desk had noticed nothing strange in the behavior or appearance of the millionaire clubman when he arrived.

If there were justice, ditchdiggers would be millionaires, and ballplayers would be half a paycheck above the poverty level.

Save for a few surface evils he sees nothing wrong in an acquisitive society, with its equation of money and virtue, its pious millionaires and erastian clergymen.

For example, People for the American Way, founded by Hollywood millionaire Norman Lear, advocates the defeat of school voucher programs, the legalization of gay marriage, and the defeat of the USA Patriot Act.