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hundred thousand

card. (context cardinal English) The cardinal number 100,000.

WordNet
hundred thousand
  1. adj. (in Roman numerals, C written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 100,000 items or units [syn: a hundred thousand]

  2. n. the cardinal number that is the fifth power of ten [syn: 100000, lakh]

Usage examples of "hundred thousand".

This was why V'ornn telemetry had failed to pierce the opaque barrier to map the three hundred thousand square kilometers on the northern side of the Djenn Marre mountains.

A short drive to a shabby furnished-rooming house, a climb of the stairs, had turned a profit of two hundred thousand dollars.

The Admiral stirred his tea, contemplated, and said, 'If Napoleon Bonaparte with his three hundred thousand very well trained men and his usual brilliant cavalry and artillery, can knock out say the Russians or part of the Austrians, the French navy may sweep us out of the Mediterranean again, above all as the Maltese and the Moroccans are so ungrateful as to hate us and as there is a real possibility of a French alliance with Tunis, Algeria and the other piratical states, to say nothing of the Emperor of Morocco and even the Sultan himself.

Something long buried in her memory nudged her that she was passing within a few hundred thousand klicks of the exact spot.

Perhaps she can tell me how I'm supposed to stop the Posleen, who are using airmobile tactics and pouring a hundred thousand troops an hour through the Gap?

It stated that last year's total purse at Melbourne Racing Park was just over two hundred thousand dollars.

Rand can have ten thousand soldiers, a hundred thousand, here in the blink of an eye, or near enough.

The EPL claimed Ollarville was over a hundred thousand, half again as big as Port Dunbar, but even party activists seemed to treat that figure as a pious wish rather than a fact.

He put four hundred thousand dollars in trust for this woman and took off and never gave her another thought.

That coming out of the hypercom receiver was a jumble of at least a hundred thousand simultaneous conversations.

He says there are seven hundred thousand known families of insects.