Dellionaire

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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