mil
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- noun
- Specialized
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mil sueco
- She calculated that the hike would cover approximately twenty mil in total.
Examples
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In Sweden, a journey of one mil is often common for daily commutes.
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This is going to be worth maybe nine mil by the end of next year.
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That must have set you back a few mil.
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Has the number always been eight mil?
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He's going to raise ten mil?
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I want it laundered through the casino at a half mil a week.
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Fifty mil to steal the canister en route to Japan.
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If they think I'm doing the sequel for less than 20 mil, they're nuts.
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That's five mil, Ray.
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The utilities were obligated to pay into the Nuclear Waste Fund a fixed annual fee of a tenth of a cent (one mil) per kilowatt-hour of electricity that their nuclear reactors generated.
Academic text (2000)
Synonyms
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7.9
A measure of distance in Sweden equal to ten kilometers
A unit of length used in Sweden equal to 10 kilometers
Surface Forms
Etymology
Mil comes from an old word meaning 'mile', just like the English word mile, so it has always been a measure of distance and in Sweden it now means 10 kilometres.