Meaning & use
multibillion
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Meaning
adjectivebefore a noun
Worth or involving several billion units, especially dollars, euros, or pounds.
Grammar: Used before a noun, often hyphenated with a currency word: a multibillion-dollar deal.
Patterns
- multibillion-dollar
- multibillion-euro
- a multibillion company
The two firms announced a multibillion-dollar merger.
She runs a multibillion-euro investment fund.
The government approved a multibillion plan to upgrade the rail network.
Common combinations
- multibillion-dollar
- They signed a multibillion-dollar contract.
- multibillion-euro
- The project has a multibillion-euro budget.
- multibillion industry
- Streaming has become a multibillion industry.
- multibillion company
- He works for a multibillion company in Silicon Valley.
Synonyms and how they differ
- billion-dollar
- Used when the amount is exactly or about one billion, not several.
- huge
- More general and informal; it does not specify the number of billions.
Word family
- billion number
- The base number: one thousand million.
- multibillionaire noun
- A person who owns several billion dollars or more.
Commonly confused: multibillion or multimillion?
multibillion vs multimillion
Multimillion means several million, not several billion; multibillion is a thousand times larger.
Practice
The company signed a ______ contract to build the new airport.
Choose one answer.
Before a noun, multibillion is hyphenated with the currency word: a multibillion-dollar contract. The other options are not standard English.
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