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        "ˈbɪljən"
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              "mean": "(US, modern British & Australian, short scale) a thousand million (logic: 1,000 × 1,000^2): 1 followed by nine zeros, 109; a milliard\n1921 January 24,  “National Finances”, in  Devon and Exeter Gazette, page 5:At the last assessment it  amounts to seven billion pounds (£7,000,000,000).\n2013 May 25,  “No hiding place”, in  The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.\n2019 October,  Dan Harvey,  “HS2 costs rise as schedule slips”, in  Modern Railways, page 9:However, despite the prospect of HS2 being curtailed and the revelation that the programme is late and billions over budget, for now, at least, work on the scheme appears to be business as usual"
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              "mean": "(dated, British & Australian, long scale) A million million (logic: 1,000,000^2): a 1 followed by twelve zeros; 1012\n1778,  Maseres, Francis,  “A Method of Finding, by the Help of Sir Isaac Newton's Binomial Theorem, a Near Value of the very Slowly Converging Infinite Series ”, in  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society‎, volume lxviii, number xli:n = 1,000,000,000,000, that is, = a billion, or the square of a million\n2000 November 8,  Ladyman, Stephen,  “”, in  Hansard‎:There is a bill to be picked up for cleaning the former Soviet countries of £1 billion. By that I mean a British billion, because when I was little I was told that a billion was a million million and then the Americans said that it was a thousand million. Well, I am talking about a million million pounds worth of clean-up to be done."
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