trillionaire

From trillion +‎ -aire.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌtɹɪl.i.əˈnɛə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌtɹɪl.jəˈnɛɚ/

trillionaire (plural trillionaires)

1. Somebody whose wealth is at least one trillion (10¹²) currency units.

   There has yet to be a trillionaire.

   • 2013, Brian Raftopoulos, David Moore, Norma Kriger, 'Progress' in Zimbabwe?: The Past and Present of a Concept and a Country, →ISBN, page 92:

     One popular foreign currency transaction scheme labelled 'burning money' made people instant quadrillionaires and trillionaires in Zimbabwean dollars.

   • 2015, Lonely Planet, Lonely Planet Kids: The Travel Book: A Journey Through Every Country in the World, →ISBN, page 137:

     A trip to Zimbabwe might make you a trillionaire.

   • 2020, Josh Clark, Chuck Bryant, Stuff You Should Know: An Incomplete Compendium of Mostly Interesting Things, →ISBN, page 180:

     At its worst, the hyperinflation in Zimbabwe's currency rendered one US dollar worth 2,621,984,228,675,650,147,435,579,309,984,228 Zimbabwe dollars. At that point pretty much every Zimbabwean became a de facto trillionaire.

   • 2025 January 19, Tami Luhby, “Get ready for the world’s first trillionaires”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Move over billionaires. The first trillionaires are on their way. […] Their net worth expanded so quickly that Oxfam revised its estimate from last year that only one trillionaire would be crowned in the next decade.

• multitrillionaire
• trillionairess

• trillion
• millionaire
• billionaire
• quadrillionaire