Billionaire vs Megamillionaire - What's the difference?
billionaire | megamillionaire |
Somebody whose wealth is greater than one billion (109) dollars, or other currency.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= A person who has many times more than one million units of the local currency, but who is not a billionaire.
* {{quote-news, year=1989, date=March 31, author=David Moberg, title=The Fuel of a New Machine, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Justin Dart, the megamillionaire plastics king, a financial backer of Ronald Reagan, once observed that "a dialogue with politicians is a fine thing, but with a little money, they hear you better." }}
* {{quote-news, year=2001, date=November 9, author=Michael Miner, title=In These Times Loses a Fortune/Sun-Times Goes Down to the Wire, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Fourteen months ago, the threadbare journal on Milwaukee Avenue was taken over by a Silicon Valley megamillionaire with a social conscience who vowed to put In These Times on the map. }}
As nouns the difference between billionaire and megamillionaire
is that billionaire is somebody whose wealth is greater than one billion (109) dollars, or other currency while megamillionaire is a person who has many times more than one million units of the local currency, but who is not a billionaire.billionaire
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(en noun)Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
See also
*megamillionaire
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