Fromcenti-(“hundred”) +billion.
centibillion (pluralcentibillions)
- (rare)Hundredbillion.
1973, Rose L. Martin, “High Finance in a Changing World”, inThe Selling of America, Santa Monica, Calif.: Fidelis Publishers Inc.,→LCCN,pages231–232:As an example of how long Keynes’ influence has outlived the man himself, President Richard M. Nixon in 1971 after presenting acentibillion dollar national budget remarked fatalistically—and perhaps ironically: “I am now a Keynesian in economics!”
1985 August 12,Lawrence Minard, “Noah’s ark, anyone?”, inForbes, volume136, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Inc.,→ISSN,pages76–77:In effect, today’scentibillion-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 andcentibillion-dollar trade deficits.
1992,James Grant, “Democratizing Credit”, inMoney of the Mind: Borrowing and Lending in America from the Civil War to Michael Milken, New York, N.Y.:Farrar Straus Giroux,→LCCN,page76:Seen from the present day—a time of general disrepair in banking and of acentibillion-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?”, inFortune, volume131, number 2, New York, N.Y.:Time Inc.,→ISSN,page84, 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”, inForbes, volume165, number 9, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Inc.,→ISSN,page55, column 1:Thecentibillion-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,page103:The Jews created a civilization out of the wilderness and a garden out of the desert, while the Arabs—even with theircentibillions of petrodollars—continued to mire themselves in medieval tyranny and poverty.
