What does billion mean in crosswords?

billion means: denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States

Which crossword clues can have billion as the answer?

Possible clues for billion include "Number with nine zeros", "Thousand million".

Word entry · 7 letters

Best crossword clue

"Number with nine zeros"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈbɪljən/Part of speech adjective, nounSorted biillnoStarts with BEnds with N2 cluesVery common crossword word

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denoting a quantity consisting of one thousand million items or units in the United States

From French billion, equivalent to bi- (“two”) + -illion.

“At the last assessment it [the national debt] amounts to seven billion pounds (£7,000,000,000).”
“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”
“The ChatGPT service which serves as Web front-end to GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 was the fastest-growing service in history to break the 100 million user milestone in January and had 1 billion visits by February 2023.”

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01“Number with nine zeros”7 letters

02“Thousand million”7 letters

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