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dollar-aire

dollar-aire is the alternative form of dollaraire.

Meaning of dollaraire

Noun

dollaraire (plural dollaraires)

  1. (rare) Somebody whose wealth equals or is greater than the mentioned amount of dollars.
    • 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.1920, The Argonaut, volume 87, Argonaut Publishing Company, page 26
  2. (rare) Somebody whose wealth equals a very small amount of dollars, especially when compared with millionaires, hundredaires, etc.
    • They have no millionaires, very few thousandaires, more hundredaires, and mostly dollaraires.1906, William Harrison De Puy, The Methodist Year-book, Philips & Hunt

Forms of dollar-aire

pluraldollar-aires

Questions about dollar-aire

What is dollar-aire the alternative form of?
Dollar-aire is the alternative form of dollaraire.

Words near dollar-aire in the dictionary

  1. dollar vans
  2. dollar voting
  3. dollar, dollar bill, y'all
  4. dollar-a-year man
  5. dollar-a-year men
  6. dollar-aire
  7. dollar-aires
  8. dollar-and-cent
  9. dollar-cost averaging
  10. dollar-sign eyes
  11. dollar-speaking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dollar-aire (page history and authors); dollaraire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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