Citations:optionaire

Noun: "a person whose wealth consists of or was made through stock options"

 * 1999 — "Worth $85 Billion, Gates Still Tops List of Richest Americans", Los Angeles Times, 24 September 1999:
 * Among the categories are: Microsoft Money, Cable Guys, Hard Drivers, Kings Of the Code, Web Masters, Bandwidth Boys, Optionaires,
 * 2000 — Dolores Kong, "Web Sites Help Those With Stock Options Learn How to Use Them", Boston Globe, 23 July 2000:
 * The site joins other Internet destinations reaching out to "optionaires" - people who are rich, or hoping to get rich, off their stock options.
 * 2001 — C. E. Curtis, Pay Me in Stock Options: Manage the Options You Have, Win the Options You Want, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (2001), ISBN 0471394815, page 87:
 * When it comes to Clasgen's financial planing strategy, there are certain basics that also apply to optionaires across the board.
 * 2001 — Loretta W. Prencipe, "E-mail and the Internet are changing the labor/management power play", InfoWorld, 12 March 2001:
 * With the dot-com heyday behind us, a slower economy upon us, and the dreams of many optionaires and aspirants squelched, how will the power play between labor and management take shape?
 * 2001 — Daniel Kadlec, "Options At Work", Time, 1 May 2001:
 * Don't you just get sick thinking about all those Silicon Valley optionaires who lost much of their fortune in the tech meltdown?
 * 2001 — Loretta W. Prencipe & Stephanie Sanborn, "What Are You Worth?", InfoWorld, 25 June 2001:
 * But he still sees above-average IT compensation and stock options that some believe could make them tomorrow's optionaires.
 * 2002 — Kiana Tower, 100 Happy Naked New Yorkers, iUniverse (2002), ISBN 0595238955, page 96:
 * Up until the recent dot com bust, tales of newly-minted millionaires and optionaires paying cash for houses and cars dominated the media.
 * 2003 — Kaye A. Thomas, Consider Your Options: Get the Most from Your Equity Compensation, Fairmark Press (2003), ISBN 0967498139, page 9:
 * "Optionaires" were among those who suffered most. Many saw the value of their stock options plummet.

Noun: "a person who has been afforded greater opportunities by having been born into privilege"

 * 1980 — Celeste MacLeod, Horatio Alger, Farewell: The End of the American Dream, Seaview Books (1980), ISBN 9780872236110, page 144:
 * A new word, "optionaires," makes this distinction. Optionaires are defined as people who grew up in the affluent society — that is, the upper third of the nation — and have options in life and privileges in society as a result of their upbringing.
 * 1992 — Joseph L. Grady, The Power of the Middle Class: It's [sic] Birth, Growth, and Apparent Demise, Erin Go Braugh Books (1992), ISBN 9780961317812, page 308:
 * But when times turned, those whose rebellion began on the campuses, and the halls and homes of the upper class, still possessed the benefits of their optionaire status and survived quite well, while the children of the rapidly expanding lower class hit bottom and became the permanent core of jobless and underemployed that are still with us, but with a new identification, the homeless.