Contents
- 1 English
- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Noun
- 1.2.1 Related terms
English
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Etymology
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From hecto- + millionaire.
Noun
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hectomillionaire (plural hectomillionaires)
- (rare) A person whose wealth amounts to 100 million dollars (or other currency unit).
- Synonym: centimillionaire
1981, Wilmot Robertson [pseudonym; John Humphrey Ireland], “Conservatism Redefined”, in The Dispossessed Majority, 3rd edition, Cape Canaveral, Fla.: Howard Allen Enterprises, Inc., →OCLC, part VI (The Political Clash), page 350:
There are, of course, many less idealistic conservatives: the millionaires and hectomillionaires who support conservatism in the hope that it will keep their taxes down and their profits up; […]
1983 December, “[Stirrings] Rare Chance for Truthful Writers”, in Wilmot Robertson [pseudonym; John Humphrey Ireland], editor, Instauration, volume 9, number 1, Cape Canaveral, Fla.: Howard Allen Enterprises, Inc., →ISSN, page 35, column 1:
The largest private donor was apparently Eric Ertman, husband of Margaret Behn, the heiress daughter of the late hectomillionaire Sosthenes Behn, founder of International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT).
1998 August 21–27, Tom Scocca, “Platinum for the People”, in Peter Kadzis, editor, The Boston Phoenix, volume XXVII, number 34, Boston, Mass., page 4, column 4:
It has also revived its special edition, Billionaire — which seems to be pitching itself a little below its ostensible audience. The most recent issue stooped to put mere deca- and hectomillionaires, including Tiger Woods and Michael Jordan, on the cover.
2002, Dennis E[lliott] Shasha, “The Richest of Them All”, in Dr. Ecco’s Cyberpuzzles: 36 Puzzles for Hackers and Other Mathematical Detectives, New York, N.Y.: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, pages 172–174:
“Each year there is an annual meeting on an island in the Caribbean owned by the club. There, the hectomillionaires meet to discuss new business ventures, many involving exclusive monopolies from mineral-rich nation states.” […] “We have 20 people around the world. They are all hectomillionaires ($100 million at least), but none have more than $10 billion. […] Each hectomillionaire would go to a private room where he or she would place the yes in one of the envelopes and the nos in the other envelopes. Then the hectomillionaire would place one envelope in each mailbox, putting the one with a yes in the mailbox corresponding to his or her wealth.” […] Her method not only revealed the wealth of the poorest and richest hectomillionaires, but also the sizes of the poorest and richest subgroups.
2004 January/February, Robert Logan, “Boris Yeltsin’s Market Bolshevism”, in The Barnes Review, volume X, number 1, Washington, D.C., →ISSN, page 43, columns 1–2:
Rich’s financial schemes became the model for many of the later Soviet “reformers,” who eventually squeezed him out and went on to become the hectomillionaire and billionaire oligarchs we know today.
2010 May 21, Duff McDonald, “Jon Corzine: Glutton for punishment”, in CNN Money[1], archived from the original on 2010-05-25:
What about Jon Corzine? Why should he tolerate them? Why on earth has the bearded and becardiganed hectomillionaire chosen to submit himself to playing the game at such a small level?
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