six figures

noun

An unspecified amount of money ranging from 100,000 to 999,999 dollars or other unit of currency.

Meanings

nounsix figures (uncountable)

alternative six figure · alternative 6 figure · alternative 6 figures

  1. uncountableAn unspecified amount of money ranging from 100,000 to 999,999 dollars or other unit of currency.

    Some make a nice chunk for themselves, like Mapple, whose wife Deena was one of the first water skiers ever to make six figures in a year.

    1998 August, Robert Stephens, “Cashing In”, in Ski, volume 21, number 7, →ISSN

Translations

Dutch vijf nullen
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