Billion vs Billions - What's the difference?
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A milliard, a thousand million: 1 followed by nine zeros, 109.
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A million million: a 1 followed by twelve zeros, 1012.
(colloquial, in the plural, hyperbole) A very large number.
(slang) many, loads, a great deal
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As an adjective billions is
(slang) many, loads, a great deal.As a noun billions is
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(head)citation, passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}
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* (short scale) Previous': million. ' Next trillion: * (long scale) Previous': milliard. ' Next billiard: * ISO prefix: giga-Derived terms
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(head)- There's billions of people at the concert.