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scrip millionaire Hist.

• a person who speculated in land-scrip (def. 2), buying at a very low price from the halfbreeds and selling at a handsome profit to settlers.

  See also: land-scrip (def. 2)  

  • 1947  But the scrip soon found its way into the pockets of the "scrip millionaires". . . .
  • 1963  . . . some, in what are now Alberta and Saskatchewan, owned mostly by "scrip millionaires" who feared such a plan . . . would prevent them amassing more riches. . . .