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 There aren’t enough millionaires or billionaires to pay for everything else. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 30 Oct. 2026 In 1893, the San Francisco Examiner approached four California super millionaires — today’s billionaires — for advice on prospering in the state. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2026 In the wake of a potential wealth tax in California and a new millionaires’ tax in Washington, Florida is a safe haven for billionaires trying to protect their fortunes (although not all will admit that’s the motive behind their move). — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026 And most of us are tired of paying for the playthings of millionaires and billionaires. — Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026 Cristobal Young, a sociology professor at Cornell University, said previous California tax increases on millionaires didn't lead to a mass exodus of wealthy people. — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026 The latest in a long series of corrective measures was a thirteen-per-cent state income tax on millionaires, which went into effect in 2012 and is due to expire in 2030. — Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2026 Becerra said that plan contained loopholes that would amount to major tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires. — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2026 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
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  1. billionaires
  2. capitalists
  3. plutocrats
Noun
  • DiFuria described a billionaire family that went from feeling guilty about their spending to owning yachts and planes and moving to an area where other billionaires live.
    — Molly A. Wallace, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Opposition campaigns to the wealth tax as well as the two countermeasures have received enormous donations from several of the state’s billionaires.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of billionaires
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
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

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