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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 The ep opened with Charles, played by Larry Dean, having a private chat with a pair of tech billionaires (Celeste Dring and newcomer Freddie Meredith, who is possibly an SNL Elon Musk) about AI at Buckingham Palace. — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2026 The number of billionaires could expand as SpaceX went public in June, with Anthropic planning its own IPO later this year and OpenAI potentially following next year. — Jason Ma, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2026 Democratic and Republican voters agree that the American public should decide the future of AI development, not billionaires in Silicon Valley, according to new polling shared first with Semafor. — Ashley Gold, semafor.com, 16 Sep. 2026 Pollsters also surveyed likely voter attitudes toward a number of high profile ballot measure initiatives, including Proposition 40, the one time tax on billionaires. — Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 16 Sep. 2026 Kerry Dolan, a Forbes editor, told The New York Times in 2022 that the magazine’s search for billionaires might never pick up on someone who had quietly made $250 million from selling a stake in a business and had invested the proceeds well. — Eric Zwick, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 2026 America's billionaires obviously have extraordinary wealth and political power. — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 14 Sep. 2026 Football, after all, provides a level of profile and recognition billionaires don’t get outside their own sector, which can often be a niche. — James Horncastle, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026 By contrast, Nixon is a clear loud voice against the establishment, big corporations and billionaires and for working people, the poor and minorities. — Steve Bousquet, Sun Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for billionaires
  1. millionaires
  2. plutocrats
  3. capitalists
Noun
  • The pair found that about three-quarters of these millionaires started their own businesses, while the vast majority didn't inherit money.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Perhaps not surprising, some of these millionaires have stakes in investment firms or medical, dental, or legal practices.
    — Eric Zwick, The Atlantic, 14 Sep. 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
  • But, overall, this didn't seem to be primarily a story of rich capitalists investing money and then sitting on their keisters while their capital generated returns for them.
    — Greg Rosalsky, NPR, 14 Sep. 2026
  • Tulloch could command a high salary at another lab, or raise billions from venture capitalists for a startup of his own, like OpenAI’s Ilya Sutskever or Google’s Jeff Dean did.
    — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of capitalists

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“Billionaires.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/billionaires. Accessed 23 Sep. 2026.

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