BILLIONAIRES Synonyms: 28 Similar and Opposite Words

billionaires

noun

plural of billionaire

as in millionaires

a rich person who has at least a billion dollars, pounds, etc.

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Recent Examples of billionaires DiFuria described a billionaire family that went from feeling guilty about their spending to owning yachts and planes and moving to an area where other billionaires live. — Molly A. Wallace, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026 Opposition campaigns to the wealth tax as well as the two countermeasures have received enormous donations from several of the state’s billionaires. — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026 Stanford University economists have questioned whether the tax could backfire, given that several billionaires have already moved out of the state. — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026 The Fantasy Bra Club is a who's-who of supermodels and, now, reality TV billionaires with makeup empires. — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2026 Talarico, an Austin area state representative, has pitched himself as a candidate to bring Texans together —regardless of party — to take on billionaires and their influence in politics. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Oct. 2026 Republicans, however, still have a leg to stand on from an unprecedented flood of outside super PAC cash, bankrolled by a tiny circle of billionaires led by Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. — Luke Fountain, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Happy peasants, miserable millionaires Graham first spotted the pattern in China.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Cristobal Young, a sociology professor at Cornell University, said previous California tax increases on millionaires didn't lead to a mass exodus of wealthy people.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of millionaires

Noun

Not until early in the next century did Congress take on the depredations of Gilded Age plutocrats.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 7 Sep. 2026
Not to mention a conga line of billionaire tech, real-estate, and finance plutocrats paying feasance to a faux populist in exchange for contracts, pardons, and sundry favors.

— Graydon Carter, Air Mail, 4 July 2026

Definition of plutocrats

Noun

Especially when your polling is no doubt telling you that progressives and anti-capitalists will struggle to trust any billionaire, however seemingly benign.

— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
Tech Week is in full bloom in San Francisco, packing the city’s restaurants this week with venture capitalists and AI founders ebullient about the White House’s stance on regulating artificial intelligence — namely, don’t do it.

— Garance Burke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026

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