thousand
noun [ C ]
uk/ˈθaʊzənd/ usplural thousand | or thousandsthe number 1,000:
They paid three hundred thousand for the house.
Thirty thousand dollars a year doesn't really go very far in the modern world.
Two thousand workers are being made redundant.
thousands of sb/sth informal
a large number of people or things:
Thousands of jobs rely on this industry.
They spent thousands of dollars trying to fix the problem.
the thousands
numbers between 1,000 and 1,000,000:
His latest work is expected to sell in the thousands.
See also
cost per thousand