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Meaning of quadrillionaire | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

  1. Somebody whose wealth is at least one quadrillion (10¹⁵) currency units.
  2. An extremely wealthy person.
    broadly

Examples

“No doubt, had a million or so more worlds been equally accessible, Ford could have been a quadrillionaire in two or three more years.”
“This is a novel by the author of The Love of Stones (2001). "John Law is a man full of secrets. People call him the Cryptographer, or the Codemaker. He is mysterious and charming, the world's first quadrillionaire, the inventor of an unbreakable code, of a new form of electronic money called Soft Gold.”
“One popular foreign currency transaction scheme labelled 'burning money' made people instant quadrillionaires and trillionaires in Zimbabwean dollars.”
“A man named Chris Reynolds was credited $92 quadrillion USD on his paypal account, "This unexpected influx of wealth elevated him to the status of the richest person on the planet and the only quadrillionaire to have ever existed". Following this, after the man reported this error and it was fixed, "PayPal owned up to their mistake and thanked the richest man of all time for understanding the situation, saying: 'This is obviously an error and we appreciate that Mr. Reynolds understood this was the case'".”
“I just wanted to come by and say merry Christmas and congratulate you on becoming the world's first quadrillionaire.””
“Americans traveling in Zimbabwe using U.S. dollars in the next few months can consider themselves quadrillionaires in that country, as it phases out its hyper-inflated currency to embrace a multi-currency system.”
““It’s up to us to make the Zimbabwe dollar work!” So, the regime imposed the Z$ and we, the voiceless quadrillionaire victims of the tyrannical regime’s corrupt and blundering incompetence, are to blame for Z$’s doomed failure! How convenient!”
“If I were a quadrillionaire, I can see How I might meet these wash-bills with just a degree Of plain aflability,-but as I'm not, And probably never will be, I'll be shot If I see how it is that they charge so much here That a laundryman makes off one man, in a year, Enough boodle to keep him the rest of his life, Besides all his children, his parents, and wife.”
“Loonies are always good material; they're so unpredictable, so genuine. And a quadrillionaire loonie geek was the acme of ratingsworthiness.”
“A 'quadrillionaire,' a has-been singer, a loquacious Marcos loyalist — they all ran for the Senate.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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