We gave $1mm to the charity organization. (The price of the house is 10,300,000 dollars). We will allocate $10 mm to expansion operations. (The bank’s budget is set at $32,000,000 dollars). It’s then up to the reader to note the context, with the document stating the place value once at the beginning and not again. One thing to consider is that when writing about large amounts of money, the words “million” or “billion” are often left out altogether, as are superfluous zeroes. Generally, the abbreviation with two M’s is preferred in finance. How Do You Abbreviate Million Dollars?Ībbreviating one million dollars is done using the above abbreviations. That said, if your organization uses M and it doesn’t cause confusion, you are free to use M to abbreviate one million. Is it M or MM for million?Īs stated above, MM is generally used in business to represent millions since the letter M by itself has historically meant 1,000. He just made millions selling his Bitcoin. She just sold millions of dollars in stocks. The founder of the company went on to become a millionaire. He has millions of coupons in his junk drawer. She won a million dollars in the lottery. The word “million” can be paired with the suffix “-aire” to form the word millionaire which indicates an individual with a million or more dollars. The word “million” is most often used in reference to money, but is also frequently used in exaggeration. In its simplest terms, a million is “one thousand thousand”. When plural, as in “millions,” it refers to multiples of 1,000,000. The word “million” is defined as the number 1,000,000. The most common abbreviation in business settings is MM. In these documents, million is generally abbreviated as: Million is commonly abbreviated in financial documents or letters. Please note: An acronym (from Greek: -acro = sharp, pointed -onym = name) in its pure form denotes a combination of letters (usually from an abbreviation) which can be used and pronounced as a word.įor the sake of clarity and readability, this definition is not always followed within the 2 lists on this page.Įnd of Thread /. The reason is that these abbreviations are based on the pronunciation of their corresponding letter / digit. However, there are some exceptions, which are fairly safe to use: 2 Not all of these short-hands can be assumed to be understood by the majorities of Internet or E-Mail users. The acronyms / abbreviations are mostly written in upper case. And they should help to better understand the meaning of text centered messages. It just contains the abbreviations (new Slang / shorthands), which I consider most useful. The Language of Internet: the following is a list of some common acronyms that are used on the web, in E-Mails.
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