six-figure
adjective
: in the hundreds of thousands : totaling 100,000 or more but less than one million
a six-figure income
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Ladders, a career site for six-figure positions, reports 10.4% of roles that pay $250,000 or more were advertised as remote in the third quarter of 2024, up from 8.8% in the second quarter.
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Morgan Smith, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
Sammy also noted that the national environmental group Food & Water Watch announced a new six-figure ad campaign in key Democratic primary battleground states, with a video that calls out Newsom for the lack of progress in closing Aliso Canyon and questions his environmental record.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
The trip would be a special (read: six-figure) one, a worthy splurge considering the Herculean difficulty of syncing this many work and school schedules.
—Ramsey Qubein, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Dec. 2024
But also there are these six-figure projects that are fixing an intersection somewhere that's going to save lives.
—Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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Morgan Smith, CNBC, 19 Dec. 2024
Sammy also noted that the national environmental group Food & Water Watch announced a new six-figure ad campaign in key Democratic primary battleground states, with a video that calls out Newsom for the lack of progress in closing Aliso Canyon and questions his environmental record.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 17 Dec. 2024
The trip would be a special (read: six-figure) one, a worthy splurge considering the Herculean difficulty of syncing this many work and school schedules.
—Ramsey Qubein, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Dec. 2024
But also there are these six-figure projects that are fixing an intersection somewhere that's going to save lives.
—Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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“Six-figure.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/six-figure. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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