hundred thousand
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- noun
- /ˈhʌndrəd ˈθaʊzənd/
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- Four hundred thousand copies later, Simon & Schuster bought the rights to publish the hardcover.
- hundred thousand dollars
- hundred thousand copies
- hundred thousand years
Examples
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Oh, I'd estimate they spent nearly a hundred thousand a year on vacations.
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I need a couple of hundred thousand bucks.
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A hundred thousand will get us out of a tight spot.
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We're several hundred thousand dollars in debt, and we got no more income.
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We had a life insurance policy on my brother and we could get... one hundred thousand dollars.
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There's just me, you, and a hundred thousand dollars!
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He lost a hundred thousand.
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His influence reaches far beyond the boundaries of the rather small community of several hundred thousand Jews he represents.
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In recent elections, Ohio voters have cast about two hundred thousand provisional ballots in major statewide contests.
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He saved up a total of hundred thousand dollars for his dream house.
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Morphology
The meaning is fully compositional: combining 'hundred' (100) with 'thousand' (1,000) yields 100 × 1,000 = 100,000, so a B1 learner who knows both numeral words can derive the value. This follows regular English numeral compounding and common cross‑linguistic counting patterns, making the phrase immediately understandable.
Etymology
Hundred thousand is simply the name for the number '100,000'. It joins hundred and thousand, so picture a stadium with 100 sections of 1,000 people to remember that the phrase means '100,000'.