centibillion

English

Etymology

From centi- (“hundred”) +‎ billion.

Numeral

centibillion (plural centibillions)

1. (rare) Hundred billion.
   • 1973, Rose L. Martin, “High Finance in a Changing World”, in The Selling of America, Santa Monica, Calif.: Fidelis Publishers Inc., →LCCN, pages 231–232:

     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!”

   • 1985 August 12, Lawrence Minard, “Noah’s ark, anyone?”, in Forbes, volume 136, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Inc., →ISSN, pages 76–77:

     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.

   • 1992, James Grant, “Democratizing Credit”, in Money of the Mind: Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to Michael Milken, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →LCCN, page 76:

     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.

   • 1995 February 6, William S. Rukeyser, “Pardon Me, But Is This Armageddon?”, in Fortune, volume 131, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, page 84, column 2:

     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.

   • 2000 April 17, Rich Karlgaard, “Digital Rules: General Motors Is a Buy”, in Forbes, volume 165, number 9, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Inc., →ISSN, page 55, column 1:

     The centibillion-dollar question is, who can become the AOL or Microsoft of car portals?

   • 2004, Jack Wheeler, “Aeschylus and America”, in Aman Verjee, Rod D. Martin, editors, Thank You, President Bush: Reflections on the War on Terror, Defense of the Family, and Revival of the Economy, Los Angeles, Calif.: World Ahead Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 103:

     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.

Related terms

• centibillionaire
• centimillion