Billion
Billion adjective - Denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States.
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Thousand million and billion are semantically related. (British) In some cases you can replace phrase "Thousand million" with "Billion", this terms are similar. obsolete substitute
Nearby Word: bill
Thousand million
Billion and thousand million are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace term "Billion" with "Thousand million", this terms are similar.
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- Milliard: Back when the Long Scale (see billion above) was still in use, "a milliard" was a way of saying a thousand million.
Source: Useful Notes / British English - You also have this in relation to other languages, for instance German (eine Billion is a million million, eine Billiarde is a thousand million million).
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