figure
- noun
- /ˈfɪɡjər/
- I'm just going to read you a few figures from these texts.
- figures show
- official figures
- census figures
I'm just going to read you a few figures from these texts.
- I'm just going to read you a few figures from these texts.
- And so people were offering seven figures plus for this, for the rights.
- Again, just to put our figures in some context.
- So let's talk about which figures are significant and which are not.
- But it's not some of the craziest figures, you know, we've seen for Tesla.
- So if you're that woman making six figures, good for you.
- Well, they had, but their, their figures were not very good.
- He got that six figure job, you know what I'm saying?
- Yeah, going to seven figures is great.
- And the Express came back with a six figure sum, but they couldn't do the advertising.
- But we have with sided we could call them figures, incongruence between them.
Examples
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Lou Schwartz called me back and gave me a lot of figures.
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And so people were offering seven figures plus for this, for the rights.
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Your own figures show a 17% increase in gun crime in the last 12 months.
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But either way, we'll get our GDP figures next week.
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Speaker, will the Prime Minister correct the record on crime figures and apologise?
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Selected community college revenue figures for the years 1999-2009 are shown in Table 1.
Academic text (2012) -
Figures released this month put their annual income for last year at 180,000,000 pounds, 32,000,000 more than Manchester United.
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The sales team reported an impressive figure of $500,000 in revenue for the quarter.
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The final figure for the project's budget came to $2 million.
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After calculating the expenses, the total figure was lower than expected.
Synonyms
A symbol or word that shows how many items there are
One of the symbols zero to nine used to write numbers
A word or symbol that shows a number
Idioms
Compounds
A person who is well known to many people, for example a celebrity or politician
A man who gives care and guidance like a father to someone who is not his child
A very simple drawing of a person using a circle for the head and lines for body, arms and legs
- Specialized
A digit that shows how exact a number is and begins with the first digit that is not zero
- Specialized
A number that shows how well a device or material works compared to others
- Specialized
A knot tied near the rope end that stops it slipping through a hole and looks like the number eight
- Archaic
A model of the human body with movable joints that artists use to set and study poses
- Specialized
A carved statue, often a head or animal, placed on a square pillar to mark a boundary
- Specialized
A flat shape like a square or circle with length and width but no depth
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Figure comes from the Latin figura which means 'shape' or 'form', because written numbers are just shaped signs. That's why figure can mean a number or an amount.