Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The cardinal number equal to 106.
- noun A million monetary units, such as dollars.
- noun An indefinitely large number.
- noun The common people; the masses.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete or dialectal form of
melon . - noun The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand.
- noun The amount of a thousand thousand units of money, as pounds, dollars, or francs: as, he is worth a million; millions have been wasted in preparation for war.
- noun A very great number or quantity, indefinitely.
- [Strictly a collective noun: see
hundred .] A thousand times one thousand; ten hundred thousand: as, a capital of a (or one) million dollars; a country of ten million inhabitants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000,000. See the Note under
hundred . - noun A very great number; an indefinitely large number.
- noun The mass of common people; -- with the article
the .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The cardinal number 1,000,000: 106.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the number that is represented as a one followed by 6 zeros
- adjective (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units
- noun a very large indefinite number (usually hyperbole)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The film now sits with $156 million domestic and $325 million worldwide on a $170 million+ $100 million or more in marketing.
Scott Mendelson: HuffPost Weekend Box Office in Review: Green Hornet dominates MLK holiday Scott Mendelson 2011
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The film now sits with $156 million domestic and $325 million worldwide on a $170 million+ $100 million or more in marketing.
Scott Mendelson: HuffPost Weekend Box Office in Review: Green Hornet dominates MLK holiday Scott Mendelson 2011
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Tracking had the film opening as low as $30 million, which for the allegedly $200 million+ production would have been a disaster.
Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office Review: Tron: Legacy Stays Above Water, How Do You Know Flops Scott Mendelson 2010
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Tracking had the film opening as low as $30 million, which for the allegedly $200 million+ production would have been a disaster.
Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office Review: Tron: Legacy Stays Above Water, How Do You Know Flops Scott Mendelson 2010
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All swaps and security-based swaps must be reported, regardless of how they are executed, with trades over $250 million posted as " $250 million+ " — whether they are $260 million or $3 billion.
Derivative-Disclosure Rules May Lift Transaction Costs Katy Burne 2010
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Tracking had the film opening as low as $30 million, which for the allegedly $200 million+ production would have been a disaster.
Scott Mendelson: Weekend Box Office Review: Tron: Legacy Stays Above Water, How Do You Know Flops Scott Mendelson 2010
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And both Star Trek and X-Men Origins: Wolverine will get sequels after each grossing around $380 million worldwide on $150 million+ budgets.
Scott Mendelson: Critics Didn't Kill the Sex and the City Franchise. It Wasn't Really Dead in the First Place Scott Mendelson 2010
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For what it's worth, the Angels & Demons opening bested National Treasure: Book of Secrets by $2 million, with both fending off the second weekend of a $75 million+ opener.
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It's still dragging just a bit behind Finding Nemo (which had $228 million at this point), and it will lose many of its 3D screens when Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs opens on July 1st, but this one is so far playing like a $300 million+ earner.
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But Obama's $4 million income last year, his wife's annual $350,000 from the University of Chicago, and their $1 million+ mansion don't bother you?
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