billion

6 definitions • 11 examples

the number 1,000,000,000:

The population of China is over a/one billion.

Cosmetics is a billion-dollar industry.

The government has invested billions of dollars in the project.

1,000,000,000,000

a very large number:

There were billions of flies everywhere.

numbers or amounts of money between 1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000,000:

The cost of the damage is reckoned to be in the billions.

The number of interactions they will need to analyze could easily reach into the billions.

The governor said that the state could not afford a school construction plan in the billions of dollars.

1,000,000,000:

Congress cut spending by $255 billion.

Four hurricanes battered Florida, causing billions of dollars in damage.

one thousand million: 1,000,000,000:

a loss of £2 billion

The banks lost billions in the crash.