dollaraire

English

Alternative forms

• dollar-aire

Etymology

From dollar +‎ -aire.

Noun

dollaraire (plural dollaraires)

1. (rare) Somebody whose wealth equals or is greater than the mentioned amount of dollars.
   • 1920, The Argonaut, volume 87, Argonaut Publishing Company, page 26:

     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.

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

     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!

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

     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)

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

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

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

   • 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:

     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!”

   • 2011 August, Bill McKenna, “Chapter 17: Uncaused Joy”, in The Only Lesson, United States: Balboa Press, →ISBN, page 89:

     At one time you were a “ten dollaraire,” then a hunderedaire, thousandaire, millionaire, multi-millionaire etc.

   • 2018 February 22, Allan Cole, chapter 26, in S.O.S.: A Novel of World War 2, Wildside Press, →ISBN, page 195:

     “I vote we keep going. We catch seven or eight more of these suckers and we’ll be hundred dollar-aires.”

2. (rare) Somebody whose wealth equals a very small amount of dollars, especially when compared with millionaires, hundredaires, etc.
   • 1906, William Harrison De Puy, The Methodist Year-book, Philips & Hunt:

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

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

     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.

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

     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.