milliard
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of milliard
From French, dating back to 1785–95; see origin at milli-, -ard
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Bar = bar of gold used to be c£1m Yard = short for "milliard".
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2012
Ordinarily, to-day, the French do not use the word "billion" at all, but refer to the sum of one thousand millions as a "milliard."
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various
The first is the assessment of the Reparation Commission, namely, 132 milliard gold marks.
From Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 by Various
There was another and more effectual cause: the war had deprived the world of twelve million workmen and a thousand milliard francs' worth of goods.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon
This amounts, in the German Empire now, to 330 to 360 milliard marks, or 5,000 to 6,000 marks per head of the population.
From Germany and the Next War by Friedrich von Bernhardi
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