millionaires

noun

plural of millionaire
as in multimillionaires
a rich person who has at least a million dollars, pounds, etc.

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Recent Examples of millionaires Musk’s multiple companies have created tens of thousands of high-paying jobs, and made millionaires out of many of his employees. — Michael Zais, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 June 2026 Dwyer and Pool’s clients include eight families each with net worth of more than $1 billion and tech founders who are millionaires and have private stock worth another hundreds of millions. — Miami Herald, 30 June 2026 Everyday millionaires, for all their diligence, are largely confined to public markets—the same index funds and 401(k) allocations that powered their ascent. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 30 June 2026 Nearly 1 million people became millionaires in 2025, largely thanks to a thriving stock market, according to a new report by UBS. — Hayley Cuccinello, CNBC, 2 July 2026 While airport slot machines are known for having tighter payouts than the mega-resorts on the Las Vegas Strip, LAS has a history of minting unexpected millionaires. — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 30 June 2026 Both Anthropic and rival OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, are set to go public in the coming year, minting thousands of new multi-millionaires. — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 17 June 2026 SpaceX’s record-shattering IPO has minted thousands of new millionaires, unleashing a wave of high-end home shoppers poised to reshape Southern California’s already tight coastal housing markets. — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026 The young millionaires continued successfully appealing to tweens and teens, many of whom grew up watching the Olsens, and managed to turn their company into a billion-dollar empire, all while attending college at New York University. — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 30 June 2026
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  1. billionaires
  2. capitalists
  3. plutocrats
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  • The obscene pay of CEOs, growing 20 times as fast as workers’ pay last year, and the obscene wealth in the tech world, with money cascading into the hands of greedy billionaires who lack empathy or even noblesse oblige.
    — Maureen Dowd, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
  • The accounts already have gotten a boost from billionaires beyond the $1,000 from the government.
    — Moriah Balingit, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
Definition of billionaires
Noun
  • Swift, whose net worth surpasses $2 billion, has amassed a fortune that rivals tech founders and venture capitalists.
    — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2026
  • Supporters included venture capitalists like Marc Andreessen, LinkedIn founder Reed Hoffman and Laurene Powell Jobs, the Apple founder’s widow.
    — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 26 June 2026
Definition of capitalists
Noun
  • Then the plutocrats circled their yachts.
    — Gary Sernovitz, New Yorker, 15 June 2026
  • The Titanic is still a subject of worldwide fascination, in part because of the range of passengers aboard the ship, from paupers to plutocrats.
    — Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2026
Definition of plutocrats

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