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Millionaire
A millionaire (originally and sometimes still millionnaire〔(millionaire or millionnaire ). CollinsDictionary.com. Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 11th Edition. Retrieved October 22, 2012.〕) is an individual whose net worth or wealth is equal to or exceeds one million units of currency. It can also be a person who owns one million units of currency in a bank account or savings account. Depending on the currency, a certain level of prestige is associated with being a millionaire, which makes that amount of wealth a goal for some, and almost unattainable for others.〔Marlys Harris. (How to marry a billionaire ). Money Magazine. June 21, 2007. 〕 In countries that use the short scale number naming system, a billionaire is someone who has at least a thousand times a million dollars, euros, or the currency of the given country (e.g. $1,000,000,000). In contrast, a billionaire in countries that use the long scale number naming system would be someone who has at least a million times a million units of currency (e.g. $1,000,000,000,000). There is no evidence that anyone on the planet has achieved the latter in either US dollars or euros.
The increasing number of millionaires is partially due to prevailing economics, especially inflation; as the individual value of each unit of currency decreases, achieving a million of these becomes easier. The purchasing power of a million US dollars in 1959 is equivalent to $}} in . 〔(US Inflation Calculator ) US Inflation Calculator and Rate Charts (1913–current).〕
==Terminology==
The word was first used (as ''millionnaire'', double "n") in French in 1719 by Steven Fentiman, and is first recorded in English (''millionaire'', as a French term) in a letter of Lord Byron of 1816, then in print in ''Vivian Grey'', a novel of 1826 by Benjamin Disraeli. An earlier English word "millionary" was used in 1786 by Thomas Jefferson while serving as Minister to France; he wrote: "The poorest labourer stood on equal ground with the wealthiest Millionary". The first American printed use of the word is thought to be in an obituary of New York tobacco manufacturer Pierre Lorillard II in 1843.
While statistics regarding financial assets and net worth are presented by household, the term is also often used to describe only the individual who has amassed the assets as millionaire. That is, even though the term statistically refers only to households, common usage is often in reference only to an individual.
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