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Oct 23, 2005 10:56
18 yrs ago
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English term

G ( to refer to money)

English Other Government / Politics R + D
My text refers to expenditure on R+D, usually in millions of euros, as in €300m (in CAT, my source text 300 M€)

There are also a few references to G€, as in 300G€. I have never seen this before.

what is 300 G€ expressed in M€, I can't afford to make a mistake here, so any conversion site link would be appreciated

TIA:-)
Responses
4 +1 not a standard abbreviation
4 +3 G = giga
3 grand or 300 thousand euro

Discussion

Lia Fail (X) (asker) Oct 24, 2005:
Brie:-) My deadline was Monday 9.00 am, I had to work on this to 4.00 am, time waits for no translator:-)
Brie Vernier Oct 23, 2005:
Thanks for that, Lia, but I wish you hadn't closed the question so quickly - others (who aren't stuck working of a Sunday!) may have more valuable insights to offer and I, for one, would have been interested to see more feedback!

Responses

+1
9 mins
Selected

not a standard abbreviation

Hi Lia,

To the best of my knowledge, this is not a standard abbreviation anywhere, so you will have to ask your client to be sure.

If I were to hazard my own guess, I might say it stands for 'thousand', as in "three hundred grand" -- if your text was written in the US -- but I certainly wouldn't bet money on it, and it is NOT a standard abbreviation.

HTH
Peer comment(s):
neutral CMJ_Trans (X) : FYI - it is quite commonly used in Europe
49 mins
And by 'Europe' you mean ...?? It certainly isn't common in Germany, and as I pointed out above, google does not really support this. "G = giga", yes, but not necessarily in connection with euros
agree Charlesp : agreed: it isnt a standard abbreviation. But I think it is quite clear it stands for Thousands.
9 hrs
Thanks, Charles
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "i agree with Brie, these are R+D budgets, they don't go into the euros to the power of 10 by 9, especiaslly for a small region in Europe (Baden-Württemberg, for example). Thanks all:-)"
+3
7 mins

G = giga

and giga = 10 to the power 9
10 000 000 000
Peer comment(s):
agree Emilie : Ja. Etwas auf Franz., gefunden ... est doté de 1G€ (giga-euro ou gigueuro = 1 milliard d'euros).
8 mins
agree Helen Genevier : plenty of google hits on gigaeuro (though 9 zeros not 10)
13 mins
yep - that was - of all things - a typo
neutral Brie Vernier : 10 to the power of 9 = 1,000,000,000, or 1 billion/1,000 million, and the FEW googles for it are primarily French, so I would be *very* careful in suggesting this
40 mins
agree MPGS : 9 zeros :)
40 mins
agree Can Altinbay : I have seen money expressed in giga-units a number of times. Especially for R&D, even more so for IT budgets.
3 hrs
disagree Charlesp : G = giga; but not in this context.
9 hrs
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6 mins

grand or 300 thousand euro

Money Slang
The following list of terms for money is not necessarily rhyming slang but, ...
Grubby Hand, £1000 (grand) [Thanks to Jim Knight whose granddad says this ...
www.aldertons.com/money.htm - 29k - Cached - Similar pages



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Note added at 8 mins (2005-10-23 11:05:23 GMT)
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300 g euro cannot be expressed in m euro : m€ is million
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