(n.) The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under Hundred.
(n.) A very great number; an indefinitely large number.
(n.) The mass of common people; -- with the article the.
Example Sentences:
(1) David Cameron has insisted that membership of the European Union is in Britain's national interest and vital for "millions of jobs and millions of families", as he urged his own backbenchers not to back calls for a referendum on the UK's relationship with Brussels.
(2) It was an artwork that fired the imaginations of 2 million visitors who played with, were provoked by and plunged themselves into the curious atmosphere of The Weather Project , with its swirling mist and gigantic mirrors that covered the hall's ceiling.
(3) Couples applying to in vitro fertilization were admitted into this project when the sperm concentration was greater than 20 million per mL and motility greater than 30 per cent.
(4) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
(5) The dose response initially resembled that described by Scholer (1959) in which one million spores killed the majority of mice.
(6) Quotes Justin Timberlake: "Even more importantly customers love it … over 20 million listening on iTunes Radio, listened to over a billion songs.
(7) In his notorious 1835 Minute on Education , Lord Macaulay articulated the classic reason for teaching English, but only to a small minority of Indians: “We must do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern; a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinions, in morals and in intellect.” The language was taught to a few to serve as intermediaries between the rulers and the ruled.
(8) Crushing their dream of denying healthcare to millions of people will put them on that road to despair.
(9) After an interim of no treatment for swine dysentery, sodium arsanilate was fed at a level of 220 parts per million for 21 days.
(10) But its population has since grown to 2.8 million people, meaning the region would have one police officer for every 530 people if the force was to be cut back to 1974 levels.
(11) Considerations on costs and benefits demonstrate that the treatment of severely injured patients, who otherwise would die, results in a considerable social and economic saving (approximately 90 million Swiss francs for the 316 trauma patients analyzed).
(12) Now he can look forward to a rookie contract worth millions.
(13) They had watched him celebrate mass with three million pilgrims on the packed-out shores of Copacabana beach .
(14) In fact, the lowest-rated game of last year's World Series between the Giants and the Tigers edged out the opening round of the draft by only 2.4 million viewers.
(15) At its centre was the Holocaust, the industrialised slaughter of 6 million Jews by the Nazis: an attempt at the annihilation of an entire people.
(16) A lost generation of 14 million out-of-work and disengaged young Europeans is costing member states a total of €153bn (£124bn) a year – 1.2% of the EU's gross domestic product – the largest study of the young unemployed has concluded.
(17) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(18) As it was, Labour limped in seven points and nearly two million votes behind the Conservatives because older cohorts of the electorate leant heavily to the Tories and grandpa and grandma turned up at the polling stations in the largest numbers.
(19) Any MP who claims this is not statutory regulation is a liar, and should be forced to retract and apologise, or face a million pound fine.
(20) The Cauliflower Mosaic Virus (CaMV) genome is a double-stranded DNA molecule of about 5 million daltons.
Millionaire
Definition:
(n.) One whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more.
Example Sentences:
(1) Private equity millionaires, wealthy hedge fund managers, some of the most successful bankers in financial history – they crowded into Cavendish’s Georgian offices.
(2) The other controversy is over the selection of the Harris Federation , set up by the Carpetright millionaire Lord Harris, a significant donor to the Tory party and friend of David Cameron who also had close links to the last Labour government, which made him a peer.
(3) Ultimately, that money belongs to me and I am now being told by a government with a frontbench full of millionaires that I have to wait another 13 years to get my money back.
(4) Photograph: Suki Dhanda for the Observer Waheed Alli is a Labour life peer and multi-millionaire media mogul, one of the few openly gay Muslim politicians in the world.
(5) He might have done many more if he wasn’t a multi-millionaire and a linchpin of the economy in his home state of Nevada.
(6) Speaking a week before Theresa May will formally being the UK’s exit from the EU by triggering article 50, Gnodde said: “We start with a significant European footprint, we are licensed with banks in Germany and in France.” UK millionaires think Brexit will make them even richer, survey finds Read more “Over the next 18 months or so we are going to upgrade those facilities, we’ll be taking extra space in a number of them and be increasing our headcount and infrastructure around those facilities,” said Gnodde.
(7) No dilettante side-project of the idle millionaire rock star, this.
(8) In 2009, a Sheringham-born millionaire named Clive Hay-Smith came up with plans for a "green" supermarket and food academy – which, as it turned out, was based on a partnership with Waitrose.
(9) Those who deplore Ed Miliband for taking money from Unite, or deplore David Cameron for taking money from millionaires, should support the alternative.” On Saturday Labour’s leader Ed Miliband accused the government of turning a blind eye to the financial affairs of the rich, and claimed the revelations over the industrial scale of tax avoidance at HSBC in Switzerland crystallised a “deeply divisive injustice”.
(10) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
(11) Banks only have to provide pay details of boardroom members and the government is backtracking on recommendations by Sir David Walker that banks disclose the number of millionaires they employ, without naming them.
(12) Altogether France's subsidy millionaires took over €1bn in 2009.
(13) The 8pm slot was won by BBC1's Holby City, with 5.9 million viewers, 25% of the audience, beating ITV1's Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, which had 4.3 million viewers, a 19% share.
(14) As in seriously ridic but also quite boring because Dave had to call this Stop Alan meeting in our kitchen :( and Picklesy is going to befriend him, as in mwahaha, because Dave said it would have to be a social outcast or Alan would smell a rat, and Hunty has started an effigy & Anna Soubry is doing this amaze visual profiling where she just kind of looks & she can instantly tell Alan is a millionaire of the noov persuasion?
(15) Last year 12 Years a Slave trod this path ; in the past Slumdog Millionaire, The King’s Speech and Argo (which was runner-up to Silver Linings Playbook at Toronto) also followed suit.
(16) Never mind that it muddies the debate (the Le Pen dynasty and the millionaire Nigel Farage somehow turn out to be the real victims in all this) and trivialises the very people to whom the quack is pretending to genuflect.
(17) Among those known to have a taste for exotic wildlife is one of Armenia’s most powerful political players, millionaire businessman Gagik Tsarukian , the head of the opposition Prosperous Armenia Party .
(18) But when voters gathered at the weekend in the city centre to hear Juha Sipilä, a millionaire businessman whose Centre party is 10 points ahead in the polls, youthful faces were conspicuous by their absence.
(19) The deal will make the founders of Adam & Eve multi-millionaires just over four years after they left WPP-owned RKCR.
(20) British conservationist Rob Dodwell and California-based dotcom millionaire Mike Korchinsky, the ranch's two main shareholders, say they have spent $400,000 (£251,000) over six months measuring Rukinga's trees and getting their Redd application validated.