milline

noun

mil·​line

ˈmil¦līn

1

: a unit of space and circulation equivalent to one agate line appearing in one million copies of a publication

2

or milline rate : the cost of one milline figured by multiplying the actual cost of one line by a million and dividing by the circulation

Word History

Etymology

blend of million and line

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