Glossary entry

English英语 term or phrase:

$500BB

Chinese汉语 translation:

Billion

    The asker opted for community grading. The question was closed on 2019-05-18 16:54:08 based on peer agreement (or, if there were too few peer comments, asker preference.)
May 15, 2019 04:42
5 yrs ago
English英语 term

$500BB

English英语译成Chinese汉语 其它 商务/商业(普通) business
about Walmart
Wmt USA by the numbers 2018
4. Revenue $318.5 billion WM U.S. ($500BB Total)
5. $11.5 billion Walmart eCommerce sales
6. 145 million customers weekly
7. 4761 U.S. locations
Proposed translations (Chinese汉语)
5 +2 Billion
5 -1 $500 Billion * Billion

Proposed translations

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8小时
Selected

Billion

Whether it's actually correct is debatable, but it clearly means $500 billion here.
Peer comment(s):

agree Andrés Chien-Hwa Chen : In banking, BB does seem to mean billions. In Spanish, doubling a letter denotes the plural form of the word. Regardless: https://news.walmart.com/2019/02/19/walmart-us-q4-comp-sales...
1小时
agree newspaperlover : http://s2.q4cdn.com/056532643/files/doc_financials/2018/q4/Q... 318.5 in US, 500.3 global in 2018
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5小时

$500 Billion * Billion

BB = Billion * Billion
There are 18 zeros =1 000 000 000 000 000 000
Peer comment(s):

disagree Lincoln Hui : Your link contradicts what you say, and $500 billion billion would be 10,000 times the annual GDP of the entire world.
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