Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
mil millones
English translation:
a thousand million (UK) / a billion (USA)
Added to glossary by
Alfonso Campos Folgado
Oct 1, 2002 21:28
21 yrs ago
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Spanish term
United States
1.165 millones de pesetas
Spanish to English
Law/Patents
From a patent application. I do not know what quantity this represents in English. A billion?
Proposed translations
(English)
| 5 +1 | slightly over a thousand million |
Alfonso Campos Folgado
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| 5 | that's right! |
Neil Phillipson
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| 5 | USD 700M |
Herman Vilella
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Proposed translations
+1
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slightly over a thousand million
The amount is: one thousand one hundred and sixty five million pesetas.
That would be (if my memory does not fail me) slightly over a billion pesetas in USA and slightly over one thousand million pesetas in UK.
That would be (if my memory does not fail me) slightly over a billion pesetas in USA and slightly over one thousand million pesetas in UK.
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Neil Phillipson
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that's right!
that is correct, one thousand million pesetas is a billion pesetas. TRaditionally the Spanish have used this method to express what we could a billion, however you sometimes do hear "billón", as an alternative, which you can find in Collins Dctionary.
I hope it helps. NDP.
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Note added at 2002-10-01 21:47:39 (GMT)
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Tina, as Alfonso correctly says, \"one thousand million (GB) = one billion (US)\", that was how I was taught at school, however these days... I don\'t know.
Does there still exist a difference between the two countries (numerical systems)? A question for the monolingual English->English section perhaps.
I hope it helps. NDP.
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Note added at 2002-10-01 21:47:39 (GMT)
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Tina, as Alfonso correctly says, \"one thousand million (GB) = one billion (US)\", that was how I was taught at school, however these days... I don\'t know.
Does there still exist a difference between the two countries (numerical systems)? A question for the monolingual English->English section perhaps.
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Herman Vilella
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USD 700M
why not USD 700 Million, which is what it is?
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Note added at 2002-10-01 21:49:18 (GMT)
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\'smatter of fact, seems to me that the figure was taken from an English-language text. Rounds out too well into dollars.
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Note added at 2002-10-01 21:49:18 (GMT)
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\'smatter of fact, seems to me that the figure was taken from an English-language text. Rounds out too well into dollars.
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