What's the difference between squillion and zillion?

Squillion


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The banks, whose irresponsible lending spree did much to produce the crisis in the first place, are raking in squillions, the bulk of the hundreds of billions in bailout funds lent by the eurozone since 2010.
  • (2) Whether they can mix it with a Manchester City side who cost several squillion times more than they did, and whose breakfasts probably cost more than Palace's monthly shopping bill (etc etc), might just depend on events at Anfield.
  • (3) On the edge of Hampstead Heath, north London, is one new, almost completed steel and glass house, costing squillions.
  • (4) And now the House of Lords EU Committee tells us 15m tonnes of food is wasted in the UK every year , so squillions of those poor chickens went through hell for nothing.
  • (5) City superwoman” Helena Morrissey is one: she has nine children, earns squillions by day, yet gets home by 6pm every night to do the ironing .

Zillion


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anyway, what happened to inserting fantastic zillion-Euro-buyout-clauses nobody (bar Real Madrid, maybe) would ever be willing to trigger?
  • (2) Rays 1 - Red Sox 5, bottom of the 4th Stephen Drew, 0-zillion against David Price, is up next.
  • (3) So when you see your children taking a zillion photos of things that you would never take a picture of, it’s because they’re using photographs to talk,” said Snapchat’s chief executive, Evan Spiegel, in a recent video posted online to explain the app to parents.
  • (4) Star Wars: The Force Awakens is merely the ultimate iteration of this formula, gussied up with the aid of the zillion new online platforms for advertising, fan-stoking and tie-in merchandising (something that didn’t really come into play until the widely derided cuddly toys of Return of the Jedi in 1983).
  • (5) I think people inside Apple thought, ‘Fine, he’s making us zillions.
  • (6) And that's not rocket science, it won't cost zillions of dollars.
  • (7) You can research and read for a million years and a zillion books, but it doesn’t make it happen in front of a camera.
  • (8) One source said: "People may say we're going soft on business, but we're getting in zillions in tax."
  • (9) If we spend a zillion dollars defending Wimbledon and terrorists blow up a different sporting event, that's money wasted.
  • (10) There were zillions of examples of this on the London fashion week catwalks, but the winning ones were at Antonio Berardi and at Christopher Kane .
  • (11) Washing your face can be an act of pollution if you use a cleaner that contains zillions of plastic microbeads for exfoliation.

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