multitrillionaire

English edit

Etymology edit

From multi- +‎ trillionaire.

Noun edit

multitrillionaire (plural multitrillionaires)

Somebody whose wealth equals two or more trillion of a currency.
- 1983 July, Wall Street Computer Review, page 148:
  When I am a billionaire, I will be a power in the financial set, but I will still be only one among a handful. It is only when I am a multitrillionaire that I will be able to control governments and force my will upon the world.
- 1986, Howard Stephen Stoker, Introduction to Chemical Principles, Macmillan Publishers, →ISBN, page 113:
  Each person would receive 2 × 10¹⁴ dollars and become a multitrillionaire.
- 1995, Stephen Strauss, The Sizesaurus, Kodansha International, →ISBN, page 102:
  The pennies you could give to the 5 billion people on Earth to make each of them a multitrillionaire.
- 1998 December, Ben Bova, Sam Gunn Forever, Avon Eos, →ISBN, pages 230–231:
  His name was J. Everest Weatherwax, and he was so famous that even I recognized him. Multitrillionaire, captain of industry, statesman, public servant, philanthropist, Weatherwax was a legend in his own time.
- 2001, A. D. Nauman, Scorch, Soft Skull, →ISBN, page 137:
  But as the ratings went up companies got interested and began to buy time. Now Dr. Aslow was a multitrillionaire.
- 2001 October, Far Eastern Economic Review, volume 164:
  In addition to the U.S. “big three,” other U.S. multitrillionaires include Citibank, Mellon Trust and Northern Trust.
- 2007 January 30, Lisa Margonelli, Oil on the Brain: Adventures from the Pump to the Pipeline, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 128:
  “That guy in the blue? He’s a multitrillionaire. I’ve seen him spend a quarter million at a charity auction for fun.”
- 2017 March 9, Todd A. Knoop, The Traveling Economist: Using Economics to Think About What Makes Us All So Different and the Same, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 96:
  Something that cost one Zim dollar on January 1st cost 7.5e+109 Zim dollars by the end of the year—for those of you who forget how to read scientific notation, this is a very big number. Zimbabwe was a nation of multitrillionaires who were starving to death.
- 2018, Steven Erikson, Willful Child: The Search for Spark, Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 222:
  If the idiot politicians and all the other wankers in power both officially and—in the case of corporate multitrillionaires—unofficially, are proceeding with their extensive infamy and corruption on the basis of dim-witted forty-two-character Twitsies, […]
- 2019, Charles Gautschy, Prince Rupert's Drop, →ISBN:
  Winchester Carnegie was a multitrillionaire—the first.