Meaning of Dellionaire | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone who became wealthy by buying stock in the computer company Dell.

informal

Examples

“Times had settled down, though, and now many of the houses were owned by retired couples or banks that had foreclosed after some Dellionaire couldn't make his payment.”

“As revenues soared, so did its stock price. From the day of its initial public offering in 1988 to its peak in March 2000, Dell's stock rose a staggering—no, staggering is not quite the word—apocalyptic 87,000 percent. Thousands of Dell employees got rich. At one point Dell's stock was said to have created 2,700 millionaires, so many that they got a name: Dellionaires. Many of them had a lot more than a million dollars.”

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