ultra rich

English

Adjective

ultra rich (not comparable)

1. Alternative form of ultrarich
   • 1929, Automotive Industries - Volume 61, page 85:

     The oil spray core is fed by the oil rushing from the orifice, is "ultra rich," and, there being no oxygen available, it cannot support combustion.

   • 1985, Mademoiselle - Volume 91, Issues 4-6, page ccxxxiv:

     WATE-ON works because It is ultra rich in stamina.

   • 1996, Wine Spectator's Guide to White Wines of California, 1997, →ISBN:

     Bold, ripe and creamy, with ultra rich tropical fruit, pear, honey, toast and spice flavors that fold together, finishing with excellent length, depth and concentration.

   • 2009, Hollywood Weekly Feb 2009:

     Tucked into the YARD, TheT-MobileG1 Diner invited VIPs for breakfast and lunch, networking or just warming up with an ultra rich, extra hot cocoa (guests easily texted drink orders from the handy T-Mobile PDAs at each table.)

   • 2011, Antti Ilmanen, Expected Returns: An Investor's Guide to Harvesting Market Rewards, →ISBN:

     As a result, Treasuries, especially long-dated ones, became ultra rich and 30-year swap-Treasury spreads reached 150 bp.

   • 2012, Gilbert Van Kerckhove, Toxic Capitalism: The Orgy of Consumerism and Waste, →ISBN, page 34:

     The catastrophic financial experiments: some became ultra rich while destroying the wealth of many.

Noun

ultra rich (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of ultrarich
   • 2008, Tamara Pelosi, Susan Semerade, Pennies from an Angel: Innocent Lives Behind a Crime, →ISBN, page xi:

     She introduced my low-income blue-collar husband into a world the working poor can only read about – the world of the ultra rich.

   • 2014, Andreas Daniel Fogg, Deferred Pay, Mergers and Acquisitions and Sectoral Deflation, Frame Deconstructions, →ISBN:

     This need to shelter the ultra rich bespeaks unacceptably high real levels of insecurity which beset the middle and working classes.

   • 2014, Darrell M. West, Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust, →ISBN, page 15:

     Wealthy interests can fund advocacy organizations with no disclosure of their contributions required. These kinds of judicial decisions bias the political process in favor of the ultra rich.