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 Propositions 41 and 42 While Proposition 40 focuses narrowly on taxing billionaires, competing Propositions 41 and 42 would have broader impacts on the state’s ability to enact new taxes. — Vanessa Martínez, Los Angeles Times, 7 Nov. 2026 But with Anthropic poised to become the first pure-play AI company to hit the public market, minting a number of new billionaires and many more millionaires in the process, a heightened level of scrutiny is coming. — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 7 Nov. 2026 New Zealand and Hawaii have the highest number of bunkers from the rich elite/billionaires. — David Hookstead Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 Nov. 2026 That countries with nearly twice the number of billionaires per capita as the United States have thriving democracies should, however, give the lie to the idea that the superrich, by their mere existence, deform democracy. — Daniel Waldenstrom, Foreign Affairs, 6 Nov. 2026 Fearing the possibility of a wealth tax, several billionaires have already fled California, including Google cofounder Sergey Brin, who helped finance the campaign to defeat Prop 40. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2026 If billionaires are not going to change their behavior when taxed in such a fashion — in this case by leaving California — then there is no reason to not dun them next year in the same fashion and every year thereafter. — Bradley Gitz, Arkansas Online, 2 Nov. 2026 Florida should belong to the people who live here, not billionaires with cushy coastal vacation homes or corporations chasing a tax haven. — Cameron Driggers, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for billionaires
  1. millionaires
  2. plutocrats
  3. capitalists
Noun
  • Thanks to the artificial intelligence boom—the latest phase of a 15-year bull market for stocks—there’s been an explosion of multi-multi-millionaires in America.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 6 Nov. 2026
  • Nearly 80% of Chicagoans voted in favor of taxing millionaires to fund public schools and property tax relief.
    — Brandon Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 5 Nov. 2026
Definition of millionaires
Noun
  • These early plutocrats made their fortunes on immovable assets — gold, land, oil, the natural riches of California.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 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
Definition of capitalists

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