billionaire
n.
one who has a billion dollars
Billionaire
For other uses see
Billionaire (disambiguation). A billionaire is a person who has a
net worth of at least one
billion units of currency, such as
United States Dollars (USD),
Pounds or
Euros.Though a "
billion" used to be a million million in much of the
Commonwealth of Nations, the American version (one thousand million) is commonplace now in the UK; so in Britain a billionaire is someone with a net worth of at least 1,000,000,000 pounds. According to Forbes Magazine, the year 2006 saw not only the biggest increase in billionaires around the world, but also was witness to the biggest economic expansion in history. It is believed that in that period, the world economy grew at an extraordinary rate of 2.5%. The four cities that have the largest concentration of billionaires according to Forbes are
New York City,
Los Angeles,
Moscow and
London.
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billionaire
Noun
1. a very rich person whose material wealth is valued at more than a billion dollars
(hypernym) rich person, wealthy person, have
billionaire
Synonyms and related words:
Daddy Warbucks, bloated plutocrat, capitalist, fat cat, man of means, man of substance, man of wealth, millionaire, moneybags, moneyed man, multimillionaire, nabob, parvenu, plutocrat, rich man, richling, warm man, wealthy man
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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