Milliardenmarkt

German

Milliarden (“billions”) +‎ Markt (“market”)

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Milliardenmarkt m (genitive Milliardenmarkts or Milliardenmarktes, plural Milliardenmärkte)

market worth billions
- 2010, Der Spiegel, issue 49/2010, page 89:
  Deutsche und niederländische Staatsbahnen wollten einen Milliardenmarkt unter sich aufteilen. Jetzt hat sich das Bundeskartellamt eingeschaltet.
  German and Dutch state railroads wanted to carve up a market worth billions between themselves. Now the federal antitrust agency has intervened.