multimillions

English

Etymology

From multi- +‎ millions.

Noun

multimillions pl (plural only)

1. Multiple millions.
   • 1966, Look, volume 31, page 114:

     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.

   • 1968 October 3, Congressional Record, page 29513, column 2:

     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.

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

     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”.

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