Billions

Word BILLIONS
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Pronunciations /ˈbɪljənz/

Definitions and meanings of "Billions"

What do we mean by billions?

(modern British & Australian, short scale) a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000^2): 1 followed by nine zeros, 109; a milliard

(British & Australian, long scale) A million million (logic: 1,000,000^2): a 1 followed by twelve zeros; 1012

An unspecified very large number.

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The word "billions" in example sentences

Whereas, the $billions to be spent in Afghanistan this year, and the hundreds of billions of dollars projected in coming years for counterinsurgency there, are desperately needed for urgent domestic social purposes, including healthcare for all, housing relief in the foreclosure crisis, full veterans benefits, and the creation of millions of jobs; and ❋ Unknown (2010)

What does that say about South Africa - a nation and government taking £billions and $billions yet the government ministers and their 'flunkies' are fat and rich and unaccountable? ❋ Unknown (2010)

There will be no such opportunity when the population bubble bursts and instead of $£billions of financial paper losses, the losses will be in millions or even billions of lost human lives. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yes on Proposition 5 will save California tax payers billions, yes * billions* of dollars, and that's just one reason why, according to ❋ Unknown (2008)

VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Oil lease blunder hidden 6 years - taypayers lose billions$$'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'After combing through 11,000 e-mail messages and interviewing 29 current and former Interior Department employees, federal investigators still aren\'t ready to say who they think told a staffer to omit contract language that would have forced oil companies operating in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico to pay billions of dollars in royalty payments as energy prices rose ... yet another taxpayer rip-off.' ❋ Unknown (2006)

This even months after having cashed in billions from the TARP program. ❋ Raymond J. Learsy (2010)

Young says unplanned readmissions often come back through hospital emergency departments, and research suggests such hospital visits drain billions from the health care system annually. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cheney former CEO of Haliburton - Haliburton raking in billions from the Iraq War - just a coincidence ❋ Unknown (2006)

"When you see profits that include the word billions, people automatically think someone is getting screwed," says Christine Tezak, Senior Energy and Environmental Policy Analyst at Robert W. Baird & Co. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A sagan is defined as at least 4 billion (the smallest amount in "billions" is two billion, so "billions and billions" equal 4 billion). ❋ Unknown (2009)

At least when Bush left office, I believe we were still using the term billions, now I’m looking up for what comes after trillions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Outstanding national credit card balances, in billions*, and key credit card restrictions: ❋ Unknown (2009)

Every day, billions of people put billions of butts in billions of chairs and relax as they do so. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These actions set the stage for American Crossroads to launder billions from the mega corporations who are corrupting our government. ❋ MD Ami Bera (2010)

Social Security is in trouble because Bush borrowed billions from the program to fund the Iraq war. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So, why should Natanyahu even care, if he gets his big US check in billions of Us dollars, the support from US here and at the UN, regarding paying attention to what the world is saying about Israel. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Who started 2 wars, cut taxes for the rich (redistribution of wealth you know), borrowed billions from the commie Chinese and wasted a budget surplus? ❋ Unknown (2010)

One of the major goals of the Copenhagen climate summit is another NIEO shakedown: the transfer of hundreds of billions from the industrial West to the Third World to save the planet by, for example, planting green industries in the tristes tropiques …. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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