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词汇 billionaire
释义 billionaire
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌbɪl.jəˈneər/ us /ˌbɪl.jəˈner/
a person who has money, property, etc. that is worth at least 1,000,000,000 dollars, pounds, euros, etc.亿万富翁,拥有十亿家产的人
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Examples from literature

So maybe that second business will make you a billionaire! 
Billionaire and world-master though he was, that night he knew his heart lay dead within him. 
Had he collected the royalties his inventions merited, he would have been a billionaire twice or thrice over. 
I never thought of it from that point of view, admitted the billionaire. 
Just what I would do if I were a billionaire! 
Oh, none of us are really quite billionaires. 

billionaire | American Dictionary


billionaire
noun[ C ]
us/ˌbɪl·jəˈneər/
someone who has more than a billion dollars (= $1,000,000,000) in the form of property, possessions, or money

billionaire | Business English


billionaire
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌbɪljəˈneər/ us /-ˈner/
a person who has money, property, etc. that is worth at least a billion dollars, pounds, euros, etc.:
The new mayor is a billionaire with no prior government experience.

Examples of billionaire


billionaire
Suppose the billionaire presents you with a gamble.
Suppose the billionaire gave each of the millionaires $100,000,000, and that this made them significantly better off.
Suppose also that the billionaire was so rich, that after his transfer he was only slightly worse off.
These banana-dollar billionaires say that they are the victims of discrimination.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
A billionaire will pay tax at exactly the same rate as an employee earning the lowest income.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It sanctions the appetite for profit of multinationals and their billionaire bosses.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Neither has the money often gone into new investment for business but to the owners, who have become millionaires and billionaires.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
If society were divided between billionaires and millionaires, the same objections would not arise.
From the
Hansard archive

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They can all be billionaires if they want.
From the
Hansard archive

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Furthermore, wastefulness, in cases for example, where subsidies for miners are paid to billionaires, is not counted as an error.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
It is a tax which is paid at the same rate by the poorest and by the wealthiest, by the unemployed worker and by the billionaire.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The number of billionaires is increasing.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The brokers' clients never got their money back owing to the insolvency of the former billionaire however.
From
Wikipedia

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Falcone dismisses the young billionaire as a harmless nuisance, telling him that real power comes from being feared.
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The series is about a billionaire family who suddenly find themselves poor.
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Wikipedia

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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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