Definitions
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- suffix Combined with Latin prefixes for names of integers in order to form names of
powers of a million or of a thousand greater than 1,000,000. Thus we have the namesbillion ,trillion , etc. - suffix Added to various nonsense syllables to indicate an arbitrarily very large number.
Etymologies
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Back-formation from million, billion, trillion, quadrillion , each from French
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Examples
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That's total present value, not benefits per year—oh, and that's an -illion with an "m," which is not normally how things work out in President Obama's Washington.
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