English Reference
Adjective

multimillion

adj.
B2 Upper Intermediate US /ˌməɫˌtaɪˈmɪɫjən/ UK /mˌʌltɪmˈɪliən/ mul·ti·mil·lion

adj.describing an amount of money that is in the millions. You use this when you want to say something is very expensive or that a company is very large.

adj.relating to or consisting of several million units, typically of currency. Often used to describe the scale of a company's revenue or the value of a property.


SIMPLE

The company is a multimillion-dollar business.

CONTEXTUAL

The charity raised a multimillion-pound sum to build a new hospital wing for children.

COMPLEX

The merger created a multimillion-dollar conglomerate that now dominates the global market for specialty chemicals and industrial catalysts.

Shakhtar have a long tradition of converting Brazilian stars into European multimillion transfers and 20-year-old Kaua Elias could be the next one on the list.

BBC News· 7 Sept 2026

From multi- + million.

Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Level B2 · Upper Intermediate
Frequency Occasional
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