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billion
/ˈbɪljən/
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What does billion mean?
numeral
- a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000²): 1 followed by nine zeros, 10⁹.
- An unspecified very large number.
More meanings (1)
numeral
- (dated) A million million (logic: 1,000,000²): a 1 followed by twelve zeros (10¹²); a thousand milliard.
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IPA pronunciation
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He assured me that that diamond's value could have been over a billion dollars, but not under it.
Poland, with its hard currency debt of approximately $40 billion, is severely limited in its ability to import much-needed hard currency goods.
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They own more than a billion dollars' worth of property, and in the West and South they dominate the intellectual life of the country.
The solid had wrested from the liquid thirty-seven million six hundred and fifty-seven square miles, equal to twelve billion nine hundred and sixty millions of acres.