Billon

Word BILLON
Character 6
Hyphenation bil lon
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Billon"

What do we mean by billon?

An alloy of gold or silver with a greater proportion of another metal, such as copper, used in making coins. noun

An alloy of silver with a high percentage of copper, used in making medals and tokens. noun

Gold or silver alloyed with copper in large proportions, so as to make a base metal. noun

Coin struck from an alloy over half copper. noun

An alloy of gold and silver with a large proportion of copper or other base metal, used in coinage. noun

Any of several alloys of precious metals and base metals that is used (where legal) to make coins, medals etc. noun

Any of several alloys of precious metals and base metals that are used (where legal) to make coins, medals etc.

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The word "billon" in example sentences

By the end of our first year in office, the economy was beginning to recover and by our second budget, for fiscal 1979, we had cut the federal deficit almost by half, to $40 billon. ❋ Walter F. Mondale (2010)

Investors have been skeptical, though, keeping the value of the shares-based Deutsche Börse bid $1 billon less than the shares-and-cash-based Nasdaq-ICE proposal. ❋ Aaron Lucchetti (2011)

TORONTO—A group of Canadian financial institutions is expected to extend its C$3.8 billion US$3.76 billon cash-and-stock offer for TMX Group Inc. beyond the Jan. 31 deadline while the two sides continue to seek approval for the deal from Canadian regulators, according to people familiar with the matter. ❋ Ben Dummett (2012)

In the second quarter Ford retired $7 billon in debt, using profit generated by its North American operations and credit arm. ❋ Matthew Dolan (2010)

WASHINGTON — Mortgage buyer Freddie Mac on Wednesday posted a narrower loss of $4.1 billon in the July-September quarter. ❋ AP (2010)

Spending on personal consumption, health care, education, mass transit, and construction for home weatherization and infrastructure repair all were found to create more jobs per $1 billon in expenditures than military spending does. ❋ Ellen Brown (2011)

It also will offer up to €8.9 billon of Treasury bills at its weekly auction Tuesday, but shorter maturities carry less risk and therefore are considered less of a test. ❋ Anusha Shrivastava (2012)

The European Banking Authority estimated that the bank needs €3.3 billon $4.4 billion in additional capital to meet its new rule of a 9% core Tier 1 ratio, assuming theoretical write-downs on sovereign-bond holdings. ❋ Christopher Emsden (2012)

India's largest power producer by capacity posted a provisional net profit of 25.05 billion rupees $565 million in the January-March period, compared with 20.17 billon rupees a year earlier. ❋ Saurabh Chaturvedi (2011)

KIRKUK, Iraq—The Iraqi cabinet Tuesday approved a deal valued as much to $17.2 billon for Royal Dutch Shell PLC to capture and process gas from three giant southern oil fields—Rumaila, West Qurna phase 1, and Zubair in the southern governorate of Basra, a government spokesman said. ❋ Hassan Hafidh (2011)

Excluding special gains, Enel said net profit would have risen by 5.0% to €4.41 billon. ❋ Liam Moloney (2011)

The passage in December 2010 established the World Trade Center Health Program and ensured $2.7 billon in funding to treat medical ailments of eligible first responders. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Not only has the Greek finance minister this week admitted that the country could well need more bail-out money than the €110 billon provided so far by the EU and the IMF, but the revenue due to be raised from land sales could be considerably lower than the projected €50 billion if, as in the past, the sales are met by popular revolt. ❋ Alen Mattich (2011)

The lender's banking unit did get a boost from Student Loan Corp. and saw total loans up 5% to $52.5 billon. ❋ David Benoit (2011)

"The market is likely to be under pressure this week amid tight liquidity conditions as Sinopec is set to sell CNY23 billon worth of bonds on Wednesday, and also as the hike in banks' reserve requirement ratio will take effect Thursday," said Li Xin, an analyst at China Development Bank Securities. ❋ Colin Ng (2011)

Asahi Group Holdings Ltd., No. 1 in the domestic market in cases shipped, said it is targeting increases of 18% in net profit, to ¥65 billon $837 million, and 6.6% in sales, to ¥1.560 trillion. ❋ Hiroyuki Kachi (2012)

However, Lu Ting , an economist at Bank of America Corp.'s Merrill Lynch unit, believes that about $34 billon might have exited in the third quarter of last year. ❋ Lingling Wei (2012)

Overall, commercial sales in Brooklyn shot up by 86% in 2011 to $1.89 billon, fueled in part by big acquisitions from bullish real-estate investment trusts and other institutional investors. ❋ Joseph De Avila (2012)

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