million
a cardinal number, a thousand times one thousand.
a symbol for this number, as 1,000,000 or M̅.
millions, a number between 1,000,000 and 999,999,999, as in referring to an amount of money: His fortune was in the millions of dollars.
the amount of a thousand thousand units of money, as dollars, pounds, or euros: The three Dutch paintings fetched a million.
a very great number of times: Thanks a million.
the million(s), the mass of the common people; the multitude: poetry for the millions.
amounting to one million in number.
amounting to a very great number: a million things to do.
Origin of million
1Other words from million
- mul·ti·mil·lion, noun
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How to use million in a sentence
Smaller markets might only be able to generate single digit millions in business, VandeHei said.
‘Go in small with clear-eyed expectations’: How a crop of startups are trying to make for-profit local news work | Steven Perlberg | November 11, 2020 | DigidayIn late 2017 and early 2018, he stole millions of dollars worth of Microsoft store credit and resold it online for bitcoin, which he then cashed out using Coinbase.
Microsoft engineer gets nine years for stealing $10M from Microsoft | Timothy B. Lee | November 10, 2020 | Ars TechnicaTwo years later, Smith gave an additional $10 million for an arts and education program expansion.
A dodgy deal helped make him a billionaire. It worked, until now. | Peter Whoriskey, Yeganeh Torbati, Keith L. Alexander | November 9, 2020 | Washington PostShe has gotten more than half a million dollars in campaign contributions from the private equity industry this cycle, more than any other senator, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political donations.
Susan Collins Backed Down From a Fight with Private Equity. Now They’re Underwriting Her Reelection. | by Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Theodoric Meyer, Politico | October 29, 2020 | ProPublicaMy friends would talk about where their family traded stocks, or a professor would reveal that most biotech companies got their first couple of million from friends and family.
It is a multimillion-dollar business in which roughly 15 million fowl die a year.
The History of the Chicken: How This Humble Bird Saved Humanity | William O’Connor | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCenter stage were two Scottish actors who had moved to the United States as the stars of multimillion-dollar film franchises.
Freeeeedom! Hollywood Fights for Scottish Independence | Nico Hines | September 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis medium is no longer “our secret”—it's a multimillion-dollar industry just as important as TV or movies.
The Cake Is a Lie: Sexism Isn’t a Boss Gamer Girls Can Beat | Emily V Gordon | July 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd of course both risks and potential rewards are stratospherically higher when it comes to multimillion-dollar athletes.
MLB’s Next Headache: Cartels, Gangsters, and Their Cuban Superstars | Peter C. Bjarkman | April 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNot every Oscar nominee was backed by Harvey Weinstein or a multimillion dollar publicity drive.
British Dictionary definitions for million
/ (ˈmɪljən) /
the cardinal number that is the product of 1000 multiplied by 1000: See also number (def. 1)
a numeral, 1 000 000, 10 6, M, etc, representing this number
(often plural) informal an extremely large but unspecified number, quantity, or amount: I have millions of things to do
(preceded by a or by a numeral)
amounting to a million: a million light years away
(as pronoun): I can see a million under the microscope
gone a million Australian informal done for; sunk
Origin of million
1Other words from million
- Related prefix: mega-
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with million
see feel like oneself (a million dollars); look like a million dollars; one in a million.
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