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Meanings of billion in English
The number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequently seen.
Synonyms
Examples for "million"
Examples for "million"
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Depression costs Irish business £170 million each year in lost work days.
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However, 5 million public sector workers will continue to suffer wage freezes.
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Water services assets book value is about 15 million euros, he said.
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The condition leads to nearly 1 million hospitalizations per year, Medtronic said.
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Industry sources say these slots have a market value of £50 million.
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It suggests dropping the health risk level to 12 parts per trillion.
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Tax evasion and avoidance cost European states one trillion euros per year.
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Last year foreign investment into Indonesia reached a record 148 trillion rupiah.
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EU ministers have agreed on half a trillion euro coronavirus rescue plan.
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It also has an open border with India and its trillion-dollar economy.
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Sixty minutes and a zillion phone calls later, the issue was resolved.
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I pulled from an article I'd read about a zillion years earlier.
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Photograph: Alamy Like a zillion other city-dwellers, I get a veggie box.
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Unless he's been one of the zillion calls I've ignored this afternoon.
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There's a zillion, people say crazy things about you on the internet.
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With the gazillion pajama-wearing users of Google-owned Blogger.com, however, not so much.
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Though it was nine gazillion degrees, a shiver ran down her spine.
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I'd heard every song and every playlist a gazillion times before.
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I may as well be talking about a billion gazillion dollars.
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Here's how to have a fun coffee break without downing a gazillion calories.
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Especially when I'm in the company of someone with a jillion facets.
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Dead babies again, murdered by some facr'ing enemy a jillion years ago.
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And spent about a jillion hours holed up in Internet cafés.
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Out of a jillion names, he's gonna remember that name, huh?
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She's related the story a million jillion times, but it always feels fresh in her telling.
Usage of billion in English
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The budget gap could reach 250 billion pesos this year, traders said.
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Later this year, 150 billion yuan more will come onto the market.
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Last year Italian police seized several billion euros' worth of 'Ndrangheta assets.
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The company said its market cap currently is roughly 55 billion reais.
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The state budget deficit this year is projected at 195 billion riyals.
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Oil drilling produced more than 130 billion gallons of water last year.
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The regulation requires them to use about 11 billion gallons this year.
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Gas subsidies cost Petronas about 20 billion ringgit a year, he said.
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Caffarelli said digital and mobile banking transactions surpassed 1 billion last year.
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A few billion people will not celebrate the new year next week.
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Links: Did Andromeda crash into the Milky Way 10 billion years ago?
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At current market prices the stake is worth about 1 billion euros.
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That means only 15 billion euros of Athens' debt increase is unanticipated.
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He wants to see that number hit 1 billion within five years.
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The public health system has accumulated reserves of nearly 20 billion euros.
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According to WATERisLIFE, nearly one billion people lack access to safe water.