Definition of thousand number from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. 1 000 You say a, one, two, etc. thousand without a final ‘s’ on ‘thousand’. Thousands (of…) can be used if there is no number or quantity before it.

You use why in questions when you ask about the reasons for something. Why hasn't he brought the bill? Why didn't he stop me? Why can't I remember the exact year we married?

Thousands of jobs rely on this industry. They spent thousands of dollars trying to fix the problem.

A thousand or one thousand is the number 1,000. You can say that there are a thousand things or one thousand things. We'll give you a thousand dollars for the story. There was a ship about one thousand yards off shore. Be Careful!

/ˈθaʊznd/ /ˈθaʊzɪnd/ IPA guide Other forms: thousands Definitions of thousand noun the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100

When a financial statement says “in thousands,” every number on that page represents 1,000 times the figure printed. A reported value of 500 on a revenue line actually means $500,000.

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