Billion

1. One thousand million in the short scale numbering system.

2. One million million in the long scale number system. This number is known, perhaps more commonly, as one trillion.

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Amero
Ankle biter
Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development
Arithmetic average
Arithmetic Mean Average
Arithmetic mean return
Asian Financial Crisis
Assets Under Management
averaging
bail out
Bailing out
bailout
Bank of America
Barings Bank Collapse
basis point
Bernard Madoff
Black Wednesday
Blue list
callable CD

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