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million

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UK:**UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈmɪliən/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/ˈmɪljən/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(milyən)

Inflections of 'million' (n):
millions
npl (Used without a preceding number—e.g. "This development cost millions of dollars.")
million
npl (Used with a preceding number—e.g. "The company's value is estimated at $10 million.")

Collocations for "million"


Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "million" in context.

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million

Most examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.
cardinal
  1. [half, a quarter of] a million
  2. could [reach, total, number] millions
  3. the [drought, war, disaster] affected millions
  4. there must be millions of [reasons, answers, possibilities]
  5. millions (of people) will [benefit, suffer]
  6. millions of lives could be [lost, saved]
  7. [earn, win, make] your first million
  8. won [10] million on the lottery
  9. investors [made, lost] millions on the markets
  10. the [cost, bill, value] runs into millions
  11. a [population, fortune] of [five] million
  12. is a [friend, father, girl] in a million
  13. you are one in a million
  14. thanks a million!
  15. was a one-in-a-million [chance, shot]
  16. million-to-one odds (that)
  17. has (over) a million [dollars, members]
  18. there are a million things to [see, do, visit]
  19. is a million miles away
  20. a million miles from [home, anywhere, here]
  21. is not a million miles (away) from
  22. (a population of) sixty million people
  23. are a million billion of them
  24. the million-dollar question (is)
  25. that's the million-dollar question!
  26. a million-dollar [fortune, payout, prize, reward]
  27. [you have, there is] a one-in-a-million chance of [winning, finding, meeting]
'million' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):

🗣️Forum discussions with the word(s) "million" in the title:

< had come> into being for over 15 million years ago. - English Only forum
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'high on the wire' from Nine Million Bicycles - English Only forum
'more' than one million deaths and a million people .... - English Only forum
'north of' $30 million - English Only forum
‘If I had a million dollars - English Only forum
(a) quarter of a million years - English Only forum
$1.135,0 million [1 billion or 1 million?] (numbers) - English Only forum
$13 million - English Only forum
$3 million in cash and available investments - English Only forum
$3 million-per-box price-tag - English Only forum
$350 million in losses had migrated - English Only forum
$5-million- to $10-million-a-year loss in revenue [Suspended hyphenation?] - English Only forum
$6–7 million of spares in the pipeline, much of which will not be delivered - English Only forum
$800 million from its endowment - English Only forum
$85 million hit - English Only forum
€34,300 million - English Only forum
0.3 million/300 thousand - English Only forum
1 million in investments - English Only forum
1 S-million-degree nuclear reactor - English Only forum
1.5 million euros’ worth of coffee <were/was? - English Only forum
10 million € or € 10 million - English Only forum
10 million dollars and 3 months <is><are> far from enough - English Only forum
10 million in mortgage payable - English Only forum
10 million more dollars vs 10 million dollars more - English Only forum
100 million plus mark - English Only forum
1000 (million dollars) = One thousand million/One billion? - English Only forum
110.6 million? - English Only forum
13.6 million - English Only forum
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