Definition of billionaire
: one whose wealth is estimated at a billion or more (as of dollars or pounds)
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Fisher is a former economist at the Institute for Energy Research, a right-leaning policy organization connected to Charles Koch, the ultraconservative billionaire whose fortune is connected to oil and petrochemicals.
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Pritzker, a billionaire investor and entrepreneur, has been running expensive ads since early May.
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The risk-taking billionaire founded PayPal and rocket company SpaceX before taking over Tesla.
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Statolaunch, the aviation company founded by billionaire Paul G. Allen, rolled out its giant airplane for its first photo op in the Mojave desert this week.
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The remaining cost of the project will be funded from the new facility and the resources of the club, which is owned by ENIC, controlled by billionaire Joe Lewis.
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The Equilar ranking also does not include billionaire hedge fund managers like Paul Singer of Elliott Management, who earned $590 million last year, according to Institutional Investors Alpha magazine.
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Malta Files reporting has also exposed offshoring schemes of the Italian mafia, a Russian billionaire’s payday loan empire, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, soccer stars, and yacht-owning European oligarchs, among others.
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On Saturday, a horse named Cloud Computing and co-owned by billionaire hedge-fund manager Seth Klarman scored a surprising victory in the 142nd Preakness Stakes.
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Origin and Etymology of billionaire
billion + -aire (as in millionaire)
First Known Use: 1844
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: a rich person who has at least a billion dollars, pounds, etc.
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