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penny
  1. (historical) In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1⁄240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d.
  2. In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1⁄100 of a pound sterling. Abbreviation: p.
  3. (historical) In Ireland, a coin worth 1⁄100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p.
  4. In the US and Canada, a one-cent coin, worth 1⁄100 of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢.
  5. In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin.
  6. A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d.
  7. Money in general.
  8. Synonyms:
  9. Examples:
    1. “I found a shiny penny on the sidewalk today.”
pennorth
  1. (obsolete, Britain) A penny's worth, or an amount of anything one could buy for a penny.
  2. (obsolete, figuratively, Britain) A very small, or the least, amount.
pennyworth
  1. The amount that can be bought for a penny.
  2. A small value or quantity.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “He smiled at Chrissy through the car window as he squirted the last pennyworth in and twisted the petrol cap back on.”
      “Meter charges for Wood Street and the Square will not make a pennyworth of difference.”
      “In any mind which has a pennyworth of imagination it produces a good attitude towards foreigners.”
pennying
  1. A drinking game where dropping a penny into somebody's drink compels him or her to down the drink.
pennilessness
  1. The state or quality of being penniless.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Financial difficulty had evolved into pennilessness, and with no ordinary work available she had been at her wits' end.”
      “But I soon tired of the parental nagging, and the boredom and the pennilessness of teenage unemployment, and set out to find myself an income.”
      “She argued that their pennilessness had been caused by the insurer's wrongful repudiation of the policy, but the court rejected that argument.”
penneth
  1. (colloquial, obsolete) Alternative form of pennyworth
pennies
  1. plural of penny
  2. An unspecified, but very small amount of money.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “There is only one way to represent any amount as the sum of pennies which is expressed as the generating function.”
      “They don't have two pennies to rub together but they are actually writing lyrics that can break your heart in 15 million places.”
      “They can be had in second-hand bookshops for a few pounds, and in charity shops for pennies.”
pence
  1. (Britain, Ireland) plural of penny (the subunit of the pound sterling or Irish pound).
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “We can buy fresh lettuce, literally straight out of the ground, for nine pence.”
      “Crystal stared miserable at her polystyrene cup, which contained only a few coppers and one ten pence piece.”
      “We got to choose a sweet for under 10 pence and she always, without fail, abandoned us at the checkout.”
pennyworths
  1. plural of pennyworth
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It seems quite possible that the same readers bought both pennyworths.”
pennorths
  1. plural of pennorth
penneths
  1. plural of penneth
pences
  1. (nonstandard) plural of pence
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