as in capitalist
a wealthy person
if you have to ask the price, you're not the Croesus for whom this palatial yacht is intended
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Recent Examples of Croesus
The temple was built by Croesus, famed for his wealth, about 550 BCE.
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Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Manners is the founder and former Chairman of Croesus Mining, a major gold producer, among a myriad of pursuits that includes his role as Chairman of the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, a libertarian think tank.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Elsa’s father, Ferdinando, was as rich as Croesus but, scandalized by his daughter turning her back on the family’s prim, conservative ways, left her to make a living for herself.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2024
Toyota, with more money than Croesus and more engineers than MIT, ran an F1 team from 2002 to 2009, reportedly spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2024
The Lydian king Croesus frequently consulted the oracle at Delphi when formulating his bets on chariot races.
—Evan Allgood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2021
As long as the boom proceeded, successful traders became as rich as Croesus.
—Alan S. Blinder, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2015
Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 7 June 2025
Manners is the founder and former Chairman of Croesus Mining, a major gold producer, among a myriad of pursuits that includes his role as Chairman of the Mannkal Economic Education Foundation, a libertarian think tank.
—John Tamny, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Elsa’s father, Ferdinando, was as rich as Croesus but, scandalized by his daughter turning her back on the family’s prim, conservative ways, left her to make a living for herself.
—Hamish Bowles, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2024
Toyota, with more money than Croesus and more engineers than MIT, ran an F1 team from 2002 to 2009, reportedly spending hundreds of millions of dollars.
—Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2024
The Lydian king Croesus frequently consulted the oracle at Delphi when formulating his bets on chariot races.
—Evan Allgood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2021
As long as the boom proceeded, successful traders became as rich as Croesus.
—Alan S. Blinder, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2015
Recent Examples of Synonyms for Croesus
Noun
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No college degree will prepare you to be a great venture capitalist.—
Edith Yeung,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Having secured both monopolies and monopsonies, tech companies behave more like rapacious rentiers than proper capitalists.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
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It’s been a year of haves and have-nots for the industrials, with companies heavily tied to data center construction, electrification, power generation, and aerospace largely outperforming the rest of the sector.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
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Things will get even worse since the AGI haves will presumably flourish in new ways and far outpace the AGI have-nots.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
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His daughter, philanthropist Mitzi Perdue, widow of the late poultry magnate Frank Perdue, is among the heirs selling the 104-acre spread for $15 million, co-listed with Compass agents Sean Bakhtiari and Colby Coppage.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
16 Sep. 2025
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The American Century that publishing magnate Henry Luce famously described in 1941 has to all intents and purposes come to an end.—
John Rennie Short,
The Conversation,
11 Sep. 2025
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Corporations love money more than anything, & this will really harm them and force them to do the right thing.—
Amanda Castro
Shane Croucher
Anna Commander,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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Biglari’s core demands were to stop opening new stores entirely, eliminate the development team to save money, and focus exclusively on improving existing store operations rather than expansion.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Croesus.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Croesus. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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