billion
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- numeral
- /ˈbɪljən/
- Over $1 billion a year!
- one billion
- one billion dollars
- about one billion
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- So how big would a stack of a billion dollar bills be?
- But we took out hundreds of billions of dollars from China.
- Debbie Fields is worth half a billion dollars from selling cookies.
- Now we're giving billions of dollars in this war.
- And my students and clients have done over a billion dollars in sales.
- Do you know how many billions of people have died?
- OK, so less songs over a billion, but more monthly listeners.
- And it can be yours for a billion dollars.
- Imagine that over a billion years we've been doing this.
- She's the one in a billion, you know, so you know, you.
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And my students and clients have done over a billion dollars in sales.
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We have over a billion dollars walking in and out of these offices looking for love.
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So we have gone from a zero to a billion in just six years.
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And it can be yours for a billion dollars.
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This dress must have been seen several billion times around the world.
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If you wanna make a billion dollars, that is the secret.
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I mean, there was half a billion dollars worth of funding on the line.
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We spend $250 billion a year on defense.
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Today, the government of the United States borrows $2 billion every 11 hours.
Academic text (2011) -
The new technology company is valued at over one billion dollars.
Synonyms
A number equal to 1,000,000,000 written as one followed by nine zeros
Compounds
- Specialized
A measure of how many billion math calculations a computer does each second
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Etymology
Billion comes from the parts bi- 'two' and million, so it was made as the next step after a million. Today most English speakers use billion to mean 'one thousand million', 1,000,000,000, so think of it as the big number after million.