centimillion

Numeral

centimillion (plural centimillions)

1. Hundred million.
   • [Youssef] Beidas was the founder and head of Intra Bank, a centimillion-dollar banking organization with main headquarters in Beirut, Lebanon, and branches just about everywhere, including the United States.1972, Béla W[illiam] von Block, Super-Detective: The Many Lives of Tom Ponzi, Europe’s Master Investigator, Chicago, Ill.: Playboy Press, →LCCN, page 168
   • Over the next forty years—until the advent of a world war—the vast majority of the population might struggle to keep up with the Joneses. But for a fistful of Robber Barons with their centimillions the challenge was keeping up with the Vanderbilts.1974, Allen Churchill, “The Terrifying Commodore”, in The Splendor Seekers: An Informal Glimpse of America’s Multimillionaire Spenders—Members of the $50,000,000 Club, New York, N.Y.: Grosset &...

   Synonyms:

   hectomillion