0 the smallest unit of money in the UK, of which there are 100 in a pound, or a small coin worth this much. You use "pence" or, more informally, "p" when you are talking about the units of money and pennies when you are talking about the coins themselves:
1 used in the past with numbers to show how many pence something cost:
a fourpenny ice-cream
2 in the US and Canada, a coin worth 1/100th of a dollar; a cent:
3 the smallest unit of money used in the UK. There are 100 pence in one pound (= the currency of the UK):
4 in the US and Canada, a cent (= one hundredth of a dollar)
5 used in expressions to refer to a very small amount of money:
Urinals were offered as a free public service by municipal governments, and men were often charged a penny for water closets.
The eight pence he earned per day was, he said, substantial salary, especially when a man lived with a relative as he did.
Of these, 7 (58.3 per cent) were for 6 pence, one for 12d, two for 16d, one for 3s and one for 4s.
The corresponding blocks in would consist of a singleton block and k blocks of size 2, and hence cost only k pence in total.
Without redirecting the focus of this research, choosing in health-care bears the risk to remain penny-wise but poundfoolish.
Without redirecting the focus of economic evaluation research, choosing in health care bears the risk to remain penny-wise but pound-foolish.
By 1638 he and his wife were living in half of a four-room house, paying a yearly rent of twelve pence.
While these were denominated in pounds, shillings and pence there was no parity of value.
