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nine figures

nine figures noun: an unspecified amount of money ranging from 100,000,000 to 999,999,999 dollars or other unit of currency.

Noun

nine figures (uncountable)

  1. An unspecified amount of money ranging from 100,000,000 to 999,999,999 dollars or other unit of currency.
    • At any time there is in our country an enormous amount of spare cash looking for investment. It may be John Smith who has sold his potatoes to advantage and wants to salt down the proceeds, or it may the United States Steel Corporation with a cash surplus running into nine figures. Both are able to...1917, Collier's: The National Weekly, volume 59, P. F. Collier
    • Experienced securities analysts, too, earn six figures, but only because their decisions earn nine figures for the portfolios they direct.1987, Jack Chapman, How to Make $1,000 a Minute: Negotiating Salaries & Raises, Ten Speed Press, →ISBN, page 9

Examples of nine figures in a sentence

  • It may be John Smith who has sold his potatoes to advantage and wants to salt down the proceeds, or it may the United States Steel Corporation with a cash surplus running into nine figures.1917, Collier's: The National Weekly, volume 59, P. F. Collier:
  • But yes, we all stand to earn nine figures.2023, Ajay Chowdhury, The Detective, Random House, →ISBN:

Forms of nine figures

alternative formnine figure
alternative form9 figure
alternative form9 figures

Questions about nine figures

What does nine figures mean?
Nine figures means an unspecified amount of money ranging from 100,000,000 to 999,999,999 dollars or other unit of currency.
How do you use nine figures in a sentence?
It may be John Smith who has sold his potatoes to advantage and wants to salt down the proceeds, or it may the United States Steel Corporation with a cash surplus running into nine figures.
What part of speech is nine figures?
Nine figures is a noun.

Words near nine figures in the dictionary

  1. nine days wonders
  2. nine days' wonder
  3. nine days' wonders
  4. nine elevens
  5. Nine Elms
  6. nine figures
  7. nine hundred
  8. nine lives
  9. nine men's morris
  10. Nine Mile
  11. nine night

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