Meanings
plural megabucks · alternative mega-buck
- informalA million dollars.
The plan includes a $500,000 cap on compensation for senior officials and new restrictions on other kinds of megabuck payouts, like severance pay.
2009 February 6, James Barron, “Proposal of a $500,000 Salary Cap Raises the Question: What to Do?”, in New York Times1 more example
the owner of a large hosiery factory believed that 100000 dozen pairs of nylon hose worth about one megabuck were disappearing from his plant every year.
1991, Walter Theodore Federer, Statistics and Society: Data Collection and Interpretation, page 98
Origin
Back-formation from megabucks.
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