billion

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bil·lion /ˈbɪljən/ W2 number (plural billion or billions)

1 HMNthe number 1,000,000,000 十亿

The final cost could be as much as one billion dollars.

最后的费用可能高达十亿美元。

two/three/four etc billion

3.5 billion years ago

35亿年前

Overseas debt is a staggering £16 billion.

外债数字惊人，高达160亿英镑。

billions of pounds/dollars etc

Airlines have lost billions of dollars.

航空公司损失了数十亿美元。

2 an extremely large number of things or people 数以十亿计，大量

a billion

A billion stars shone in the night sky.

夜空中繁星闪烁。

billions of something

There are billions of things I want to say.

我有很多很多的话要说。

3. HMN British EnglishBrE old use the number 1,000,000,000,000 一万亿

—billionth adjectiveadj

—billionth noun [countableC]

Examples from the Corpus

billion• Farnham, which manages assets of $ 30 billion.• That saves them nearly $ 4 billion a year.• The agency said telemarketing fraud is estimated to cost consumers as much as $ 40 billion a year.• The committee, generously enough, rounded down the $ 6. 5 billion result to get $ 6 billion.• Co. and is part of a $ 1 billion shelf registration.• Of these, £1.5 billion to £2 billion worth could be sold on the open market.• The budget allocates $ 19. 45 billion to State Department operations, foreign aid, peacekeeping and international lending institutions.

two/three/four etc billion• The world's population now stands at a little over four billion.• Fayetteville is the home of Fort Bragg, which pumps three billion dollars into the local economy.• The amount of uranium in the belt is about four billion tons, enough to make roughly a trillion tactical nuclear weapons.• In early times, then - certainly more than two billion years ago photosynthesis evolved.• The sheer implausibility of the emergence of humans from primordial slime in just three billion years is clearly too much for many.• Hardly any lunar rocks are younger than three billion years.

From Longman Business Dictionary