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billionaire

/bil-yuh-nair, bil-yuh-nair/US // ˌbɪl yəˈnɛər, ˈbɪl yəˌnɛər //UK // (ˌbɪljəˈnɛə) //

亿万富翁,百万富翁,亿万富豪,富翁

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who has assets worth a billion or more dollars, euros, etc.

Examples

  • That’s what billionaires like Bezos can easily do if they want their money to make the biggest difference.

  • Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, reported that the center advocates for government deregulation and receives funding from Charles Koch, the billionaire philanthropist whose company is tied to the fossil fuel industry.

  • At least five people connected to Moderna and BioNTech are now billionaires, including Bancel.

  • The pro-democracy forces were up against a Trumpified Michigan GOP controlled by allies of Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chair, and Betsy DeVos, the former Education Secretary and a member of a billionaire family of GOP donors.

  • He hasn’t signed the Giving Pledge, founded by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates in 2010, which calls on billionaires to pledge the majority of wealth to charity.

  • To most of the world, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is a convicted sex offender and a financial grifter.

  • The billionaire philanthropist tastes the product of a machine that processes human sewage into drinking water and electricity.

  • The bromance between the Russian president and the billionaire ex-prime minister of Italy goes way back.

  • The right-leaning tech billionaire offers a look into how Silicon Valley could transform the way we think about politics.

  • Billionaire Michael Bloomberg already had the gun lobby in his sights.

  • Another billionaire, Mr. Carnegie, gives his millions to found libraries.

  • The millionaire is a very ordinary individual in America; it is only the billionaire who now really attracts attention.

  • I know a billionaire, at least this is his reputation, who has no standing merely because he is vulgar—that is, ill-bred.

  • Overnight Ben Wrail had become a billionaire many times over.

  • Either Pepe would make his move—or I would sail on to my billionaire's paradise planet.