Talk:millionaire
Local currency[edit]
Somebody whose wealth is greater than one million dollars, or the local currency (in a comment: this probably depends on the value of the local currency) I changed this and signed it as 'removed americanisation' - I did, of course, mean 'removed US-centricism' (this also aligns the definition with the wikipedia entry for millionaire). It doesn't depend on the value of the local currency - you'd still be a millionaire, it just wouldn't matter so much if the currency is low value. sheridan 12:12, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
"A person whose net worth is at or greater than one million units of the local currency." - Is this the genuine definition in actual use by most native English speakers, though? It's just that a Brit wouldn't describe a Swede with 1 million kronor as a "millionaire", except in jest. This could be relevant to the translations too. If Swedes use "miljonär" to mean someone with a million kronor, the correct English translation (to avoid being misleading) would be "krona-millionaire", not "millionaire".
New usage: earning a million per year[edit]
I keep seeing a new usage of this word: "someone whose income is over one million units in one year." This apparently dates to President Obama's use of the phrase "millionaires and billionaires" when he talked about raising taxes on those with over a million dollars a year in income.Benbradley (talk) 05:07, 12 October 2016 (UTC)