Definitions

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  • noun Somebody whose wealth is greater than one thousand dollars, or the local currency.

Etymologies

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Modeled on existing words such as millionaire using thousand.

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Examples

  • A former journalist and now fat-cat-novelist, I am part of that media elite that President-Elect Palin keeps warning you about, a veritable multi-thousandaire whose assets are spread evenly between hard liquor (I'm hoarding; it's the next gold) and signed copies of my friends 'books.

    Jess Walter: Trust Me... Finance and Poetry Are Funny Jess Walter 2010

  • I am a veritable multi-thousandaire whose assets are spread evenly between hard liquor and signed copies of my friends books.

    Jess Walter: Trust Me... Finance and Poetry Are Funny Jess Walter 2010

  • A former journalist and now fat-cat-novelist, I am part of that media elite that President-Elect Palin keeps warning you about, a veritable multi-thousandaire whose assets are spread evenly between hard liquor (I'm hoarding; it's the next gold) and signed copies of my friends 'books.

    Jess Walter: Trust Me... Finance and Poetry Are Funny Jess Walter 2010

  • I am a veritable multi-thousandaire whose assets are spread evenly between hard liquor and signed copies of my friends 'books.

    Jess Walter: Trust Me... Finance and Poetry Are Funny Jess Walter 2010

  • I am a veritable multi-thousandaire whose assets are spread evenly between hard liquor and signed copies of my friends books.

    Jess Walter: Trust Me... Finance and Poetry Are Funny Jess Walter 2010

  • A former journalist and now fat-cat-novelist, I am part of that media elite that President-Elect Palin keeps warning you about, a veritable multi-thousandaire whose assets are spread evenly between hard liquor (I'm hoarding; it's the next gold) and signed copies of my friends 'books.

    Jess Walter: Trust Me... Finance and Poetry Are Funny Jess Walter 2010

  • A former journalist and now fat-cat-novelist, I am part of that media elite that President-Elect Palin keeps warning you about, a veritable multi-thousandaire whose assets are spread evenly between hard liquor (I'm hoarding; it's the next gold) and signed copies of my friends 'books.

    Jess Walter: Trust Me... Finance and Poetry Are Funny Jess Walter 2010

  • During one down period, I referred to him in print as a "financially embattled thousandaire" and he sent me a copy of the column with my picture circled and "The Face of a Dog!" written over it.

    Donald Trump Writes Blistering Letter To Gail Collins, New York Times Columnist 2011

  • A former journalist and now fat-cat-novelist, I am part of that media elite that President-Elect Palin keeps warning you about, a veritable multi-thousandaire whose assets are spread evenly between hard liquor (I'm hoarding; it's the next gold) and signed copies of my friends 'books.

    Jess Walter: Trust Me... Finance and Poetry Are Funny Jess Walter 2010

  • A former journalist and now fat-cat-novelist, I am part of that media elite that President-Elect Palin keeps warning you about, a veritable multi-thousandaire whose assets are spread evenly between hard liquor (I'm hoarding; it's the next gold) and signed copies of my friends 'books.

    Jess Walter: Trust Me... Finance and Poetry Are Funny Jess Walter 2010

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