Meaning of dollaraire | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Somebody whose wealth equals or is greater than the mentioned amount of dollars.
   rare
2. Somebody whose wealth equals a very small amount of dollars, especially when compared with millionaires, hundredaires, etc.
   rare

Examples

“The world's playground became a camp, and now is a workshop, and our billionaires, millionaires, and hundred-thousand-dollaraires will have to put up with Florida, California, our sight-seeing trips, and the Canadian resorts.”

“One is the Publishers Clearing House, which I visit every day, because you never know! I just may be the next 10 million-dollar-aire!”

“If not, what fan/heatsink do you all suggest for the 600e (good price to performance ratio important, I aint a hundred-dollar-aire you know)”

““So,” I clutched my army jacket at my neck, “how does it feel to be a hundred-thousand-dollaraire?””

“And no-one ever refers to a billion pounds as a "billipound", or Bill Gates as a "billion-dollar-aire". Completely different notation systems.”

“If everybody around you keeps saying, “Congratulations, you’re a millionaire!”, you can be forgiven for thinking, “Hey, yeah, I’m a millionaire!” After all, that has a much nicer ring than “Hey, I’m a 47,000-dollar-aire!””

“At one time you were a “ten dollaraire,” then a hunderedaire, thousandaire, millionaire, multi-millionaire etc.”

““I vote we keep going. We catch seven or eight more of these suckers and we’ll be hundred dollar-aires.””

“They have no millionaires, very few thousandaires, more hundredaires, and mostly dollaraires.”

“THE MILLIONAIRE / […] / THE DOLLARAIRE / First Workingman: I have two thousand dollars that I wish I could invest where I wouldn't have to pay taxes on it.”

“Now as to the money. While I am a multi-thousandaire, I think you might just be a hundredaire or even a dollaraire. So that is an issue.”

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