trillionth

trillion | American Dictionary

trillion
number
us/ˈtrɪl·jən/
1,000,000,000,000:
Distances in space can be measured in trillions of miles.

trillion | Business English

trillion
number
/ˈtrɪljən/ukuspluraltrillion | trillions
a thousand billion, or the number 1,000,000,000,000:
$3/$20/$72, etc. trillionWe are targeting the $6.7 trillion market in imports and exports.
High energy prices have yielded trillions for oil and natural gas producers.

Examples of trillion

trillion
The capital gains from both equities and bonds propelled plan assets from $444 billion in 1982 to $2.1 trillion in 2000.
Over the period from 1977 to 1997, we accumulated more than $3 trillion of national debt.
He proposed a $1.3 trillion tax cut, rebates from which would go to all taxpayers, though disproportionately to upper income families.
Between 1980 and 1991, the operation costs of grant-supported projects fluctuated between 80 and 90 trillion yen.
Two trillion yen were cut from the distribution of the local allocation tax and the reserves of public works.
Between 1982 and 2000, capital gains on equities held by defined benefit plans amounted to $1.4 trillion.
Few people are aware that each human being encloses billions of micro-organisms and is surrounded by trillions more.
By 1999, this had grown to $180 billion and the forecast for 2002 is $1.23 trillion.
Between 1985 and 1994, the total reduction amounted to 93 trillion yen.
By contrast, those of projects without grant support rose sharply - form 54 trillion yen in 1980 to 179 trillion yen in 1993.
You see, he's proposed $2.2 trillion of new spending.
During these interludes, some officials might have donated their own salaries to a $660 trillion solution with fewer, although equally grave, variables.
The program's current unfunded obligation is evaluated at $4.6 trillion.
Remarkably, early in a child's life the brain produces trillions more synapses than are found in adulthood.
The party expects to allocate about one trillion yen for this program.
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