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shalionaire

shalionaire is the alternative spelling 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

Forms of shalionaire

pluralshalionaires

Questions about shalionaire

What is shalionaire the alternative spelling of?
Shalionaire is the alternative spelling of shaleionaire.

Words near shalionaire in the dictionary

  1. Shaligram
  2. Shaligrama
  3. Shalimar
  4. shaliness
  5. shaling
  6. shalionaire
  7. shalionaires
  8. shalk
  9. shalks
  10. shall
  11. shall I say

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