hundred thousand

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[a], [b] ←  10,000  ←  50,000 100,000 1,000,000 (106)  →  100,000,000 (108)  → [a], [b]
10,000[a], [b]
    Cardinal: hundred thousand, one hundred thousand, lakh
    Ordinal: hundred-thousandth, one-hundred-thousandth
    Group collective: lakh
    Number of years: centimillennium
A 100,000 United States dollar banknote.

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hundred thousand (plural hundred thousands)

  1. The cardinal number 100,000.
    Synonyms: (South Asia, Myanmar) lakh, one hundred thousand
    • 1802, Augustus von Kotzebue, translated by Benjamin Beresford, The Most Remarkable Year in the Life of Augustus von Kotzebue; [], volume III, London: [] [F]or Richard Phillips, [] [b]y T[homas] Gillet, [], →OCLC, page 109:
      Madame Chevalier, who with a word could have caused her aged mother to have been brought in triumph to Petersburg, and supported there in ease and abundance; who reckoned her fortune by hundred thousands of rubles, sent her indigent parent two hundred rubles.
    • 1952 July, W. R. Watson, “Sankey Viaduct and Embankment”, in Railway Magazine, pages 486-487:
      Mr. Greenshields was the contractor selected to build the embankment, and over a hundred thousand tons of marl and moss compacted with brushwood were used in its construction.


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