Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Possessing millions (of dollars, or pounds, etc.).
- Pertaining to or consisting of millions: as, the millionary chronology of the Pundits.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions.
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- adjective Of or relating to
millions ; consisting of millions.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Let me tell these bus companies, that as I see it, that is exactly the point, you wouldn't make this millionary investment in a train for people to continue using buses, not for anything, we aren't idiots.
Global Voices in English » Costa Rica: Long awaited for Train in Inaugural Run 2009
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I find it really interesting that the author of this article writes extensively on the facts that those contracts were given to Fabricio Correa, and gives only one last paragraph to explain that the president canceled those contracts, even though that could mean millionary law suits against the country.
Global Voices in English » Ecuador: State Contracts With President’s Brother Raise Concerns 2009
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But if a regular person downloads illegally a song, or uses without permission a picture, not paying a convenient fee to Sony or Metallica, a millionary lawsuit would be on the way …
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He had a dread that these millionary people, with wasteful private cars, might take undue interest in his companion.
Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Among these last, the poorest laborer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest millionary, and generally, on a more favored one, whenever their rights seemed to jar.
Memoir Correspondence And Miscellanies Jefferson, Thomas 1829
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Among these last, the poorest laborer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest millionary, and generally, on a more favored one, whenever their rights seemed to jar.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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And all this to feed the avidity of a few millionary merchants, and to keep up one thousand ships of war for the protection of their commercial speculations.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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