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space, noun, outside earth’s atmosphere
I thought this was the meaning of space in space billionaires? Billionaires who pour a lot of money into going to space?
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/space_1?q=space
A verb is a doing word, so it is saying to space the billionaires, as in to throw them out in airlock into space. It's got nothing to do with whether or not the billionaires are active in the space industry or not.
Yes but in figure 1 it's a noun modifying another noun. Like police car siren. Police and car aren't adjectives in that example.
The term you might be looking for is adjunct noun, where a noun modified another noun by acting as an adjective, as-in chicken soup, or cat food.