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- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Pronunciation
- 1.3 Noun
- 1.3.1 Derived terms
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English
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Etymology
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quadrillion + -aire
Pronunciation
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Noun
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quadrillionaire (plural quadrillionaires)
- Somebody whose wealth is greater than one quadrillion units of the local currency.
1954, Thurman Andrew, Property, Profits, and People, page 39:
No doubt, had a million or so more worlds been equally accessible, Ford could have been a quadrillionaire in two or three more years.
2003, H.W. Wilson Company, Book review digest - Volume 99, page 537:
This is a novel by the author of The Love of Stones (2001). "John Law is a man full of secrets. People call him the Cryptographer, or the Codemaker. He is mysterious and charming, the world's first quadrillionaire, the inventor of an unbreakable code, of a new form of electronic money called Soft Gold.
2013, Brian Raftopoulos, David Moore, Norma Kriger, 'Progress' in Zimbabwe?: The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country, →ISBN, page 92:
One popular foreign currency transaction scheme labelled 'burning money' made people instant quadrillionaires and trillionaires in Zimbabwean dollars.
2013 July, Microsoft Network, Richest Man of All-Time Dramatically Gained and Lost His Entire Fortune in Just 2 Minutes[1]:
A man named Chris Reynolds was credited $92 quadrillion USD on his paypal account, "This unexpected influx of wealth elevated him to the status of the richest person on the planet and the only quadrillionaire to have ever existed". Following this, after the man reported this error and it was fixed, "PayPal owned up to their mistake and thanked the richest man of all time for understanding the situation, saying: 'This is obviously an error and we appreciate that Mr. Reynolds understood this was the case'".
2014, Ryan Browning, Patricians:: Sinful Seven, →ISBN:
I just wanted to come by and say merry Christmas and congratulate you on becoming the world's first quadrillionaire.”
2015 June 12, FOX News, One US dollar = Z$35 Quadrillion as Zimbabwe phases out old currency[2]:
Americans traveling in Zimbabwe using U.S. dollars in the next few months can consider themselves quadrillionaires in that country, as it phases out its hyper-inflated currency to embrace a multi-currency system.
2019 June 28, The Zimbabwe Mail, ‘We must make Z$ work’, who is ‘we’[3]:
“It’s up to us to make the Zimbabwe dollar work!” So, the regime imposed the Z$ and we, the voiceless quadrillionaire victims of the tyrannical regime’s corrupt and blundering incompetence, are to blame for Z$’s doomed failure! How convenient!
- (by extension) An extremely wealthy person.
1891 September, W.A.G., “Ode On My Washbill”, in The Round Table, volume 38, number 1:
If I were a quadrillionaire, I can see How I might meet these wash-bills with just a degree Of plain aflability,-but as I'm not, And probably never will be, I'll be shot If I see how it is that they charge so much here That a laundryman makes off one man, in a year, Enough boodle to keep him the rest of his life, Besides all his children, his parents, and wife.
1997, Martin Harry Greenberg, Vampires: The Greatest Stories, →ISBN, page 236:
Loonies are always good material; they're so unpredictable, so genuine. And a quadrillionaire loonie geek was the acme of ratingsworthiness.
2007, Newsbreak, page 74:
A 'quadrillionaire,' a has-been singer, a loquacious Marcos loyalist — they all ran for the Senate.
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