thousand
/ˈθaʊz(ə)n(d)/ numeral A2- A numerical value equal to 1,000; ten times a hundred (1 E+3 exactly—in scientific E notation) · The company earned fifty thousand dollars last month.· Many thousands of people came to the conference.
Plural thousands
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“If I took them, and were detected, I should lose my place, which is worth two thousand francs a year; so that I should be a great fool to run such a risk for three hundred.”
“If by six in the morning the four thousand piastres are not in my hands, by seven o’clock the Count Albert will have ceased to live.”
There were in all six thousand piastres, but of these six thousand Albert had already expended three thousand.
She said I must have asked her a thousand already.
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