Definition of "billions" []

• Many, loads, a great deal (adjective)
• Plural form of billion. (noun)

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• "Whereas, the $billions to be spent in Afghanistan this year, and the hundreds of billions of dollars projected in coming years for counterinsurgency there, are desperately needed for urgent domestic social purposes, including healthcare for all, housing relief in the foreclosure crisis, full veterans benefits, and the creation of millions of jobs; and"
• "What does that say about South Africa - a nation and government taking £billions and $billions yet the government ministers and their 'flunkies' are fat and rich and unaccountable?"
• "There will be no such opportunity when the population bubble bursts and instead of $£billions of financial paper losses, the losses will be in millions or even billions of lost human lives."