multimillions

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noun

Multiple millions.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

nounmultimillions pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyMultiple millions.

    This is a lame duck administration, and if it is going to pass out political favors worth multimillions of dollars per year, it must move.

    1968 October 3, Congressional Record, page 29513, column 2
    2 more examples

    Like Buckley, she came from an extremely social family worth multimillions of dollars: The Taylors of Vancouver could match bank accounts with the Buckleys of Connecticut any day.

    1966, Look, volume 31, page 114

    I recommended a research project on one of the best river systems in North America today as far as salmon is concerned, this is the Gander Lake tributary and river system, a system worth multimillions of dollars, where the salmon population has been dropping off tremendously and the Department came back and said, “We know nothing about it, but we do not have any money”.

    1969, Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence of the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Forestry, Parliament of Canada, page 13-23

Origin

  1. Proto-Italic*moltos
  2. Latinmultus
  3. Latinmultī
  4. Middle Englishmulti-
  5. Englishmulti-
  6. Englishmillions
  7. Englishmultimillions

From multi- + millions.

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