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单词 gazillionaire
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Definition of gazillionaire in English:

gazillionaire

noun ɡəˈzɪljənɛːɡəˈzilyəˌner
informal
  • An extremely rich person.

    it's really not hard to look fabulous when you're a gazillionaire in your early 20s
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This in turn allows the gazillionaires who run these multinationals and conglomerates an unhealthy sway over government policy.
    • Maybe I'll become a regular on the show and then I'll be a gazillionaire just like them!
    • He and his brother, Barry, sold their high-profile, high-performing furniture stores to gazillionaire Warren Buffett a few years ago, but Buffett was smart enough to let the brothers keep doing their thing.
    • If he was a gazillionaire and he was providing tax relief to other gazillionaires then I'd have a problem.
    • I'm curious as to what two gazillionaires hope to gain by suing their nanny.
    • Several months later, eBay agreed to buy the company for $1.5 billion, and Thiel and his co-founders became gazillionaires before the age of 35.
    • Years later, some of his corporate friends have become "gazillionaires," he says, but he wouldn't want to leave the theatre to switch places with them.
    • I guess being a gazillionaire makes up for being the ugliest man in the world.
    • Whether it is car czars or bank barons, there's not lot of love for gazillionaire executives these days.
    • Oil gazillionaire J. Paul Getty once offered this formula for achieving financial success: "Rise early," he intoned, "work late, strike oil."

Origin

1980s: from gazillion, on the pattern of millionaire.

Definition of gazillionaire in US English:

gazillionaire

nounɡəˈzilyəˌner
informal
  • An extremely rich person.

    it's really not hard to look fabulous when you're a gazillionaire in your early 20s
    I've never claimed to be a gazillionaire—the press labeled me one
    Example sentencesExamples
    • If he was a gazillionaire and he was providing tax relief to other gazillionaires then I'd have a problem.
    • I guess being a gazillionaire makes up for being the ugliest man in the world.
    • He and his brother, Barry, sold their high-profile, high-performing furniture stores to gazillionaire Warren Buffett a few years ago, but Buffett was smart enough to let the brothers keep doing their thing.
    • Maybe I'll become a regular on the show and then I'll be a gazillionaire just like them!
    • I'm curious as to what two gazillionaires hope to gain by suing their nanny.
    • Years later, some of his corporate friends have become "gazillionaires," he says, but he wouldn't want to leave the theatre to switch places with them.
    • Whether it is car czars or bank barons, there's not lot of love for gazillionaire executives these days.
    • Several months later, eBay agreed to buy the company for $1.5 billion, and Thiel and his co-founders became gazillionaires before the age of 35.
    • This in turn allows the gazillionaires who run these multinationals and conglomerates an unhealthy sway over government policy.
    • Oil gazillionaire J. Paul Getty once offered this formula for achieving financial success: "Rise early," he intoned, "work late, strike oil."

Origin

1980s: from gazillion, on the pattern of millionaire.

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