quintillionaire

English

Etymology

quintillion +‎ -aire

Pronunciation
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Noun

quintillionaire (plural quintillionaires)

  1. Somebody whose wealth is greater than one quintillion units of the local currency.
    • 1961, General Practitioner - Volume 24, page 80:
      He favors letting the gentleman establish the trusts because he's quite sure that by 2961, $89 quadrillion dollars probably won't buy one box of good cigars. By then, he adds, everyone will be a quintillionaire, struggling to make ends meet.
    • 2012, Willis Bryant, Cold Blood, →ISBN, page 48:
      The constellation Norma had Normaesque constellations . . . the world's richest man was the first quintillionaire, formerly a decillionaire, after losing a lot of his money, and his Moira Sheareresque name was Hanksy Ronald Stump, and he pissed on the skeleton of Donald Trump.
    • 2015, Edward Stasheff, Marcus Johnston, Predatory Practices, →ISBN:
      If Heth could have motivated assembly line workers to move that fast, he'd be a quintillionaire.
    • 2020, Mark Fenton-O'Creevy, International management: An institutional perspective, The Open University:
      There are no more trillionaires, quadrillionaires, or quintillionaires in Zimbabwe. This followed the slashing of 10 zeros from the Zimbabwean currency by the central bank.
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