centimillionaire

English

Etymology

centi- +‎ millionaire

Noun

centimillionaire (plural centimillionaires)

1. A person whose wealth amounts to 100 million dollars (or other currency unit).

   Synonym: (rare) hectomillionaire

   • 1981, Thomas R. Dye, Luther Harmon Zeigler, The Irony of Democracy, page 123:

     […] at least 153 Americans who are "centimillionaires" — worth more than $100 million each […]

   • 2002, Dinesh D'Souza, The Virtue of Prosperity, page 98:

     Executive Jet […] was subsequently acquired by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway company, making Santulli a centimillionaire.

   • 2023 November 25, Douglas Rushkoff, “‘We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     But, as chronicled by Peter Turchin in End Times, his book on elite excess and what it portends, today there are far more centimillionaires and billionaires than there were in the gilded age, and they have collectively accumulated a much larger proportion of the world’s wealth.

Usage notes

See centimillion.

Related terms

• centibillionaire
• centimillion