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$500BB

Chinese translation: Billion

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English term or phrase:$500BB
Chinese translation:Billion

04:42 May 15, 2019
    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.)


English to Chinese translations [PRO]
Business/Commerce (general) / business
English term or phrase: $500BB
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
Katherine Xuan
China
Billion
Explanation:
Whether it's actually correct is debatable, but it clearly means $500 billion here.
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Lincoln Hui
Hong Kong
Local time: 07:00
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Summary of answers provided
5 +2Billion
Lincoln Hui
5 -1$500 Billion * Billion
Liu Peng


  

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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
$500bb
$500 Billion * Billion


Explanation:
BB = Billion * Billion
There are 18 zeros =1 000 000 000 000 000 000


    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9175517
Liu Peng
France
Local time: 01:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
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.
2 hrs
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
$500bb
Billion


Explanation:
Whether it's actually correct is debatable, but it clearly means $500 billion here.

Lincoln Hui
Hong Kong
Local time: 07:00
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ChineseChinese, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
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 hr
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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