Meaning of decabillion | Babel Free

Definitions

Ten billion.

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Examples

“Breathtaking megadeals make headlines almost daily, and have lost their ability to astound. Kraft, RJR Nabisco, Pillsbury — these and other takeovers and leveraged buyouts requiring deca[-]billions of dollars, would have overwhelmed the most sophisticated investment bankers of the 1970s.”

“Of course, to achieve what he did, [Jeff] Vinik had to take risks—throwing decabillions of dollars into technology stocks long before that sector caught fire, for instance, and tossing out all the consumer growth stocks so beloved by [Peter] Lynch (“no growth potential,” says Vinik).”

“The common currency of all such East–West discussions was money—the need for very large sums to carry out macroeconomic reform, but just as the United States and the other G-7 states had resisted Mikhail Gorbachev’s outsized requests, so too did Boris Yeltsin’s large numbers after 1991 fail to bring forth the decabillions sought.”

“[Bill] Gates is worth decabillions in part because he had a few big visions, such as the basic tide of growth in PCs and the creative power of open standards, but equally important has been his embrace of the fluidity of the future and an awesome ability to react to surprises.”

“The earth has given us three imperatives. The first is to reproduce with foresight. Our planet is a sphere. Space and materials are finite. Freedom, health, and breath cannot coexist with a limitless surge of fleshy billions, doubling in decades to decabillions and doubling again.”

“Rebuilding New Orleans will require many years, deca-billions of dollars and a national consensus about priorities, there and elsewhere.”

“Google’s revenue from its unlikely foray into selling software probably won’t be all that much to begin with, but this isn’t a fight for sales. Think of this fight as determining a few decabillion dollars of market value circa 2010.”

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