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multimillion

multimillion

3 3.5
Having several million, often about money or people
  • adjective
  • /ˌmʌltiˈmɪljən/
translation icon : multimillonario
  • During the 1960s and 1970s, the exotic fish trade was a multimillion-dollar business in the United States (Conroy 1975).
  • multimillion-dollar

Now Impact Theory is my third multimillion dollar company in a row.

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Examples

  • Lillien, who presides over a multimillion-dollar empire of Hungry Girl cookbooks, low-calorie recipes, specialty products, and TV shows, all of them geared to letting people eat the junk food they love and not get fat.

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  • After the September 11, 2001, attacks, Saudi Arabia launched a multimillion-dollar public relations campaign to counter the perception that the royal family was supporting terrorism.

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  • Now Impact Theory is my third multimillion dollar company in a row.

  • And she grew up in a multimillion dollar home in Boston, in Boston, in Boston.

  • When the price of oil showed up, the oil companies started earning multimillion dollar profits.

  • You've started numerous multimillion dollar companies.

  • It's a huge multimillion dollar business idea that will happen and you're going to love it.

  • The company is a rapidly growing multimillion-dollar business.

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  • Like this immigrant has built a multimillion dollar empire.

  • The market for luxury goods has turned into a multimillion dollar industry, attracting investors from around the world.

How Many

billion
  • Archaic
1 6.8
multimillion
3 3.5
million
  • Informal
417 1.0
thousand
1.0

Surface Forms

multimillion positive

Morphology

multimillion = million (transparent) = multi + million

Clear prefixation of 'multi-' to 'million', yielding the idea of several million.

Etymology

Multimillion comes from multi- meaning 'many' and million meaning 'one million'. So multimillion is like 'many millions', which is why we use it for very large amounts, audiences, or projects.