Definitions
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- noun informal Collectively, a very large amount of money (whether in
dollars or other currency). - noun Plural form of
megabuck .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit)
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Examples
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Beltran left as a free agent for megabucks from the Mets, making a 2005 repeat by the Astros difficult, if not improbable.
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Your only hope is that the employer is a big name megabucks corporation that doesn't want the embarrassment.
Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes 2009
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Bankrolled by Texan billionaire Allen Stanford, the tournament came in for heavy criticism, with former England and Wales Cricket Board chief Lord McLaurin calling the megabucks final, in which the Superstars walked off with one million US dollars a man and a vanquished England nothing, "obscene" and a "pantomime".
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Bankrolled by Texan billionaire Allen Stanford, the tournament came in for heavy criticism, with former England and Wales Cricket Board chief Lord McLaurin calling the megabucks final on November 1, in which the Superstars walked off with one million dollars a man and a vanquished England nothing, "obscene" and a "pantomime".
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Claudia amazingly ended her article with the self-fulfilling prophecy that my new novel was to be auctioned for "megabucks".
Susan Braudy: An Excerpt from a Memoir in which the Late Claudia Cohen Saves the Day 2008
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MPs 'expenses by Sir Thomas Legg, describing the former mandarin's salary for chairing the review as "megabucks".
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010
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MPs 'expenses by Sir Thomas Legg, describing the former mandarin's salary for chairing the review as "megabucks".
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010
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He also criticised the £1.1 million cost of an audit of MPs 'expenses by Sir Thomas Legg, describing the former mandarin's salary for chairing the review as "megabucks".
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MPs 'expenses by Sir Thomas Legg, describing the former mandarin's salary for chairing the review as "megabucks".
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010
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MPs 'expenses by Sir Thomas Legg, describing the former mandarin's salary for chairing the review as "megabucks".
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010
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