Collocations for "million"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "million" in context.
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million
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.cardinal
- [half, a quarter of] a million
- could [reach, total, number] millions
- the [drought, war, disaster] affected millions
- there must be millions of [reasons, answers, possibilities]
- millions (of people) will [benefit, suffer]
- millions of lives could be [lost, saved]
- [earn, win, make] your first million
- won [10] million on the lottery
- investors [made, lost] millions on the markets
- the [cost, bill, value] runs into millions
- a [population, fortune] of [five] million
- is a [friend, father, girl] in a million
- you are one in a million
- thanks a million!
- was a one-in-a-million [chance, shot]
- million-to-one odds (that)
- has (over) a million [dollars, members]
- there are a million things to [see, do, visit]
- is a million miles away
- a million miles from [home, anywhere, here]
- is not a million miles (away) from
- (a population of) sixty million people
- are a million billion of them
- the million-dollar question (is)
- that's the million-dollar question!
- a million-dollar [fortune, payout, prize, reward]
- [you have, there is] a one-in-a-million chance of [winning, finding, meeting]
'million' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Dutch
- Japanese
- accrual
- aid
- album
- allotment
- astonishing
- auction
- benefit
- bidding
- billing
- break
- canvas
- chance
- city
- collateral
- contract
- county
- damage
- default
- defense
- discharge
- district
- divorce
- dollar
- earnings
- endowed
- endowment
- estimate
- extinct
- follower
- gig
- gross
- hammer
- hoard
- house
- illness
- indemnity
- inhabitant
- jewelry
- mansion
- movie
- net
- never
- one
- painting
- payoff
- payroll
- penthouse
- planet