noun Download 🔗Share In the United Kingdom and Ireland, a copper coin worth 1/240 of a pound sterling or Irish pound before decimalisation. Abbreviation: d. Examples : ""Before they switched to decimal currency, a loaf of bread might have cost just a few pennies in Ireland." " economy finance number history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share In the United Kingdom, a copper coin worth 1/100 of a pound sterling. Abbreviation: p. Examples : "I found a few pennies on the sidewalk near the bus stop. " economy finance value Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share In Ireland, a coin worth 1/100 of an Irish pound before the introduction of the euro. Abbreviation: p. Examples : "Before the euro, a loaf of bread in Ireland might have cost you sixty pennies. " value economy finance history Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share In the US and Canada, a one-cent coin, worth 1/100 of a dollar. Abbreviation: ¢. Examples : "My son saved up his pennies to buy a new comic book. " value economy finance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin. Examples : "I found two pennies on the sidewalk. " value economy finance asset Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A unit of nail size, said to be either the cost per 100 nails, or the number of nails per penny. Abbreviation: d. Examples : "The carpenter ordered 200 pennies of nails for the new fence. " technical unit industry commerce number Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Money in general. Examples : "to turn an honest penny" finance economy asset Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To jam a door shut by inserting pennies between the doorframe and the door. Examples : "Zach and Ben had only been at college for a week when their door was pennied by the girls down the hall." property action utility Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
verb Download 🔗Share To circumvent the tripping of an electrical circuit breaker by the dangerous practice of inserting a coin in place of a fuse in a fuse socket. Examples : ""Please don't ever pennies a circuit breaker; it's incredibly dangerous and could start a fire." " utility electric electronics technical energy action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading