multibillions

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

multi- +‎ billions

Noun[edit]

multibillions pl (plural only)

  1. More than one billion of something, especially money.
    • 2009 February 15, “More Annals of Global Greed Inc.”, in New York Times[1]:
      There may be some taxpayer comfort in the fact that this scandal was rooted in Nigeria, not Iraq, where the Halliburton megacorporation (you know, the one Dick Cheney ran before he became vice president) reaped multibillions as the Bush administration’s most favored no-bid contractor.

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