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shaleionaires

shaleionaires is the plural of shaleionaire.

Meaning of shaleionaire

Noun

shaleionaire (plural shaleionaires)

  1. A person who has become rich by allowing natural gas to be extracted from a shale deposit situated below land they own.
    • What we have here is a modern-day gold rush or, more correctly, a shale gas rush, which I have termed a shalenanza, which has created many shaleionaires (a term invented by someone else).2012, Frank R. Spellman, Environmental Impacts of Hydraulic Fracturing, CRC, published 2013, →ISBN, page 2

Questions about shaleionaires

What is shaleionaires the plural of?
Shaleionaires is the plural of shaleionaire.

Words near shaleionaires in the dictionary

  1. shale pits
  2. shale shaker
  3. shale shakers
  4. shaled
  5. shaleionaire
  6. shaleionaires
  7. shalelike
  8. shaler
  9. shalers
  10. shales
  11. shaleshudes

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