Definitions

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  • adjective Of a million dollars or more.
  • noun The sum of a million dollars (or any comparably large amount of money).

Etymologies

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mega- +‎ dollar

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Examples

  • Despite having one of the NHL's prime collection of scorers - they added Gomez and Drury in megadollar offseason deals - the Rangers have only 13 goals while going 2-5-1.

    USATODAY.com - Hockey - N.Y. Rangers vs. Pittsburgh 2006

  • Who needs a 500 megadollar penis extender like this?

    Poor man’s boat, the first… | My[confined]Space 2009

  • Look at those late twentieth-century megadollar daubs you can't give away now.

    The Ghost from the Grand Banks Clarke, Arthur C. 1990

  • Look at those late twentieth-century megadollar daubs you can't give away now.

    The Ghost from the Grand Banks Clarke, Arthur C. 1990

  • Working through the regular public school system, which would certainly require some kind of megadollar sponsorship, would start big, would have to coopt the interests of incumbent institutions, and would make it difficult to impossible to actually yield quick returns to the most important participants: the teachers and students in the classroom.

    Forbes.com: News E.D. Kain 2012

  • On the other hand, if Congress is only listening to the megadollar-powered influence peddlers who swarm around Washington and this issue, it's getting static - a distorted view of things.

    chron.com Chronicle 2009

  • Let's knock over their remote teams, trash their reporters while on camera live, bust up their megadollar griffs, festoon their broadcast towers with sacks of cowshit, storm their studios, get the Kiev boys to lance their web site's software: proclaim nonviolent but total war.

    Stop Me Before I Vote Again 2008

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