multithousandaire

English edit

Alternative forms edit

multi-thousandaire

Etymology edit

From multi- +‎ thousandaire.

Noun edit

multithousandaire (plural multithousandaires) (rare)

A person whose net worth is at two or more thousand units of the local currency.
- 1987, Lawrence A. Krause, Sleep-Tight Money: A Guide to Managing Your Money Safely and Achieving Financial Peace of Mind, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 222:
  Does that mean by investing more speculatively some of you will become millionaires? I certainly hope so. But more realistically, there is a greater likelihood that you can become a multithousandaire.
- 2002 February 16, Bill Lang, “Re: Is Carl Banks the new M13k?”, in rec.sport.football.college (Usenet), message-ID <a4kcs9$hqf$1@slb4.atl.mindspring.net>:
  I don't dance, I don't drink, I hate bars, all of my friends all couplfucks who don't give ashit about my bitterness enough to set me up with other bitter people, I drive a truck so there's no meeting chicks at work, I'm not a multithousandaire,I don't live in a college town full of young hotties, the chicks at church look at me funny cuz I smoke, and my last two girlfriends both slept with my boss, and I 've never gotten answer from one of those matchmaking services for bitter people.
- 2005, Jon Hanson, Good Debt, Bad Debt: Knowing the Difference Can Save Your Financial Life, Portfolio, →ISBN, “What If You Live?”, “To Be a Millionaire, You Must First Be a Thousandaire”, page 119:
  Certainly having the first $100 in savings won’t be too exciting. Even becoming a multithousandaire won’t change your life, but by steady stick-to-it-iveness you will eventually become a one-, three-, four-, or five-hundred-thousandaire.
- 2008 June 8, Giorgies E. Geshahnna, “Re: Thomas Friedman on Israel”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet), message-ID <8a503c5a-5b1f-41bc-8f15-ae07fcf3d55b@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>:
  Yes, wonderful. If you are a trillionaire. Or even billionaire or multimillionaire. If you have only one million, not so very wonderful. and if you are only an multithousandaire, not good at all.
- 2009, Nathan Rabin, The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture, Scribner, →ISBN, page 224:
  Syndication and a thriving film career undoubtedly had made him a multimillionaire. I was (just barely) a multithousandaire.