centibillion
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "As an example of how long Keynes’ influence has outlived the man himself, President Richard M. Nixon in 1971 after presenting a centibillion dollar national budget remarked fatalistically—and perhaps ironically: “I am now a Keynesian in economics!”"
- "In effect, today’s centibillion-dollar U.S. trade deficits are the financial costs of a Marshall Plan for the 1980s. […] Through trade, we help keep the global economy afloat but at the cost of bankruptcies and centibillion-dollar trade deficits."
- "Seen from the present day—a time of general disrepair in banking and of a centibillion-dollar crisis in the so-called thrift industry—the turn of the century has a powerful nostalgic appeal."
- "Well, we do persist: centibillion-dollar federal deficits still stretch as far as the eye can see, and other indicators of governmental and personal imprudence are rife."
- "The centibillion-dollar question is, who can become the AOL or Microsoft of car portals?"
- "The Jews created a civilization out of the wilderness and a garden out of the desert, while the Arabs—even with their centibillions of petrodollars—continued to mire themselves in medieval tyranny and poverty."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: centi