dollaraire

plural dollaraires · alternative dollar-aire

1. rareSomebody whose wealth equals or is greater than the mentioned amount of dollars.

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

   2001 January 21, Steve Hermanos, Strange Jazz, United States: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 108

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   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.

   1920, The Argonaut, volume 87, Argonaut Publishing Company, page 26

   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!

   1996 August 13, Ana Diaz, “Re: A teeny tiny survey”, in alt.cuddle (Usenet), message-ID <3210A8C6.283C@worldnet.att.net>

   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)

   2000 April 14, rainkid, “CELERON / COPPERMINE Fan/Heatsink”, in alt.comp.hardware.overclocking (Usenet), message-ID <jczJ4.90068$17.1965143@news4.giganews.com>

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

   2006 May 16, robcraine, “Re: [I] Very Large Numbers”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet), message-ID <1147775358.434790.213100@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>

   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!”

   2009 January 6, Robert Doyen, Meg Schneider, “Chapter 12: Winning Wealth”, in Making Millions For Dummies, Indianapolis, Indiana; Canada: Wiley, →ISBN, Part III: Paths Paved with Gold, page 162

2. rareSomebody whose wealth equals a very small amount of dollars, especially when compared with millionaires, hundredaires, etc.

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

   1906, William Harrison De Puy, The Methodist Year-book, Philips & Hunt

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   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.

   1922, Los Angeles Single Tax League, Tax Relief Association of California, Tax Facts, page 46

   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.

   2004 May 9, Boob, “Re: Grudgematch 2004!”, in alt.surfing (Usenet), message-ID <109sb8t22et3f72@corp.supernews.com>