thousandaire
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editthousandaire (plural thousandaires)
- (humorous) Somebody whose wealth is greater than one thousand units of the local currency.
- 2009 March 13, Clyde Haberman, “The Rich: Can’t Live With Them, Can’t Live Without Them”, in New York Times[1]:
- “Obviously, no tears will be shed for the fact that billionaires have gone down in their net worth,” Steve Forbes, the magazine’s editor in chief, told a gathering of thousandaires, more commonly known as journalists.