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:
He has calculated the costs down to the last penny.
When we were first married we had to pinch pennies just to get by.
It was only in the late 1820s that transactions in pounds, shillings and pence became virtually extinct.
It was those disadvantages which explain in part the persistence of accounts in pounds, shillings and pence until well into the nineteenth century.
This information complicates our assumptions about penny-weekly fiction; it also suggests that we need to rethink matters of form.
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(英國)便士(最小的貨幣單位,100便士為1英鎊,表示幣值時用 pence 或在非正式場合也可用 p,而表示硬幣本身時用 pennies), (美國和加拿大的)分(幣), 便士(英國在1971年以前使用的大硬幣,12便士等於1先令)…
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(英国)便士(最小的货币单位,100便士为1英镑,表示币值时用 pence 或在非正式场合也可用 p,而表示硬币本身时用 pennies), (美国和加拿大的)分(币), 便士(英国在1971年以前使用的大硬币,12便士等于1先令)…
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penique, centavo [masculine, singular]…
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moeda que vale um centésimo da libra ou do dólar, pêni…
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cent [masculine], penny [masculine], penny…
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