billion
/ˈbɪljən/ noun [C] (written abbreviationUK bn, written abbreviationUS b, written abbreviation bil)Definition
› one thousand million: 1,000,000,000: a loss of £2 billion The banks lost billions in the crash.
(Definition of billion noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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