decabillion
decabillion numeral: ten billion.
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decabillion (plural decabillions)
- Ten billion.
- Breathtaking megadeals make headlines almost daily, and have lost their ability to astound. Kraft, RJR Nabisco, Pillsbury — these and other takeovers and leveraged buyouts requiring deca[-]billions of dollars, would have overwhelmed the most sophisticated investment bankers of the 1970s.1988 October 30, Robert Sobel, “J.P. Morgan Would Call Takeovers Of Today No Big Deal”, in New York Newsday, New York, N.Y., page 78, column 1
- Of course, to achieve what he did, [Jeff] Vinik had to take risks—throwing decabillions of dollars into technology stocks long before that sector caught fire, for instance, and tossing out all the consumer growth stocks so beloved by [Peter] Lynch (“no growth potential,” says Vinik).1995 September, Gregory Spears, “The $50 Billion Man”, in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, volume 49, number 9, Washington, D.C.: The Kiplinger Washington Editors Inc., →ISSN, pages 33–34
Examples of decabillion in a sentence
- Freedom, health, and breath cannot coexist with a limitless surge of fleshy billions, doubling in decades to decabillions and doubling again.2004, Paul R. Fleischman, “Introduction to the Second Edition”, in Cultivating Inner Peace: Exploring the Psychology, Wisdom, and Poetry of...
- Think of this fight as determining a few decabillion dollars of market value circa 2010.2006 November 27, Victoria Murphy Barret, Quentin Hardy, “Desperate Acts”, in Forbes, volume 178, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Forbes LLC....
Forms of decabillion
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Origin of decabillion
From deca- + billion.
Questions about decabillion
- What does decabillion mean?
- Decabillion means ten billion.
- How do you use decabillion in a sentence?
- Freedom, health, and breath cannot coexist with a limitless surge of fleshy billions, doubling in decades to decabillions and doubling again.
- What part of speech is decabillion?
- Decabillion is a numeral.
Words near decabillion in the dictionary
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