multibillion

multibillion — adjective

1. used to describe an amount of money, a business deal, or the value of a company

1.形容詞B2
釋義

used to describe an amount of money, a business deal, or the value of a company that involves several thousand million units of a currency

例句

Hyun’s firm won a multibillion-dollar contract to build new subway trains for Seoul.

multibillion-dollar + noun (contract)

Andrés invested in a multibillion-euro technology fund that backs start-ups across Europe.

multibillion-euro + fund (non-dollar currency)

同義詞
  • multitrillion

    describes an even larger scale — thousands of billions rather than several billion

  • billion-dollar

    narrower in scope; refers to exactly one billion, not many billions

  • vast

    broader and less precise; can describe any large scale, not specifically money

反義詞
  • small-scale

    opposite in magnitude, used for modest budgets or operations

文法句型

multibillion-{currency} + noun

用法筆記

Almost always used attributively (before a noun) in a hyphenated compound with a currency unit such as dollar, euro, pound, yen, or rand. The word itself cannot stand alone as an adverb or noun (❌ ‘The deal is worth multibillion’). Common in financial journalism and corporate reports.

常見錯誤

❌The government signed a multibillion deal.
✅The government signed a multibillion-dollar deal.
💡A currency unit must be included in the compound; ‘multibillion’ alone sounds incomplete.
❌The company is valued at multibillion.
✅The company is valued at several billion dollars.
💡‘multibillion’ is an adjective, not a noun; use a different structure to express the value.