Dellionaire

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noun

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

Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounDellionaire (plural Dellionaires)

plural Dellionaires

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

    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.

    2009, Laura Griffin, Untraceable, New York, N.Y. […]: Pocket Star Books, →ISBN, page 75
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    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.

    [2013 February 7, S. C. Gwynne, “Dell's Great Success Story”, in Texas Monthly, Austin, T.X.: Texas Monthly LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Mar 2023

Origin

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