(n.) According to the French notation, which is used upon the Continent generally and in the United States, the number expressed by a unit with twelve ciphers annexed; a million millions; according to the English notation, the number produced by involving a million to the third power, or the number represented by a unit with eighteen ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.
Example Sentences:
(1) Moody's said on Wednesday night that there was a greater risk that the US government would not agree to increase its debt ceiling above the legal limit of $14.3 trillion (£8.86tn), hit in May .
(2) Thus the G20 leaders, faced with the still gathering failure of the global economy, see no alternative but to sacrifice another $1 trillion .
(3) Science can say that if we burn another half-trillion tons of carbon the atmospheric content of carbon dioxide will go up by another 100 ppm and that will almost certainly lead to a warming of the planet greater than 2C, with major disruption of the climate system and huge risks for the natural world and human wellbeing.
(4) For many decades, we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry; subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military; we’ve defended other nations’ borders while refusing to defend our own; and spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America’s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.
(5) The campaigners argue that the trillions of dollars companies are still spending on exploration for even more fossil fuels is a danger to both the climate and investors’ capita.
(6) They know that you're just going to buy everything from Amazon now, so they've all cut their losses and stacked every shelf with a trillion different 50 Shades Of Grey knock-offs called things like Disciplined With Buttplugs and 20 Carat Strumpet.
(7) Speaking at the Young America’s Foundation conference in Washington, he said: “When I was younger, a trillion was an astronomic number.
(8) The method detects levels as low as 100 parts per trillion (ppt) in water samples; recovery efficiency from spiked fish tissues was greater than 95%.
(9) The original referred to half a trillion pounds being spent on higher education instead of "general government spending".
(10) Go has trillions of possible moves; according to the British Go Association , at the opening of Chess there are 20 possible moves.
(11) An analytical method has been developed that enabled the determination of parts per trillion levels of 32 VOCs in 10 mL of blood.
(12) Total public sector net debt was £1.2 trillion or 75.4% of gross domestic product at the end of October, according to figures published last week by the Office for National Statistics.
(13) In that time, it will shine about a million trillion times as bright as the sun, making it temporarily the brightest source of gamma rays in the observable universe.
(14) His speeches talk of how “the redistribution of trillions of dollars into the hands of the very rich”, has left the top one-tenth of one per cent owning almost as much wealth as the bottom 90% of Americans.
(15) UK chancellor George Osborne called for “cool heads” while Bank of England governor Mark Carney said the outlook for the world economy had not changed despite a dramatic start to 2016 on financial markets that has seen trillions of dollars wiped off the value of global shares amid panic selling and a slide in oil prices.
(16) Five years ago the Chinese viewed the country primarily as a source of hydrocarbon and mineral deposits – trillions of dollars of the oil, gas, copper, iron, gold and lithium that China will need if its economy is to expand.
(17) Western leaders, who for years boasted about the self-evident benefits of light-touch regulation, had to sink trillions of dollars to prevent the world bank system collapsing.
(18) The Bank of Japan has already launched a ¥1 trillion scheme to buy shares in cash-strapped commercial banks, while parliament is debating a government proposal to buy ¥20tn in shares from lenders.
(19) Bob Holman Glasgow • In 2012 the Tax Justice Network estimated that $21-32 trillion is hidden in tax havens worldwide.
(20) Each of the three Fed programs illustrated below were themselves smaller in size, from nearly $2 trillion in round one to just $400 billion in Operation Twist.... 3.
Zillion
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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.