billion

IPA: bˈɪɫjʌn

Root Word: Billion

a name for a large number.
Billion Electric Co. Ltd. (Taiex: #3027), based in Taiwan, is an electronics company founded in 1973.

Examples of "billion" in Sentences

The process took billions of years.
My guess is the number is in the billions.
Rowling is the billion dollar gorilla in the room.
Aussies splurge $14.8 billion in post Christmas sales.
The deposit is of the order of billions of tonnes of ore.
The current population of the world is close to 7 billion.
The population of 2142 is in the area of 15 billion people.
A proton is believed to be changeless for billions of years.
Millions die from curable diseases, while drug companies rake in the billions.
Athens would have found it impossible to repay the 5 billion lpar;$6.4 billion rpar; treasury bill maturing on Friday.