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 decimalisation, my grandmother used to save pennies for her tea. " economy finance history value 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 : "My grandmother gave me a penny for my allowance. " value economy business finance 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 : "My grandmother gave me a few pennies for my lunch money at school. " value finance economy 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 daughter saved her pennies to buy a new coloring book. " value business economy finance item Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share In various countries, a small-denomination copper or brass coin. Examples : "My grandmother gave me a penny for my good behavior in school. " value economy finance business 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 2000 nails at 5 pence per penny. " technical industry commerce business Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Money in general. Examples : "to turn an honest penny" finance economy business 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 building 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 : "To save money, John pennyed the circuit breaker, inserting a coin into the fuse socket instead of a proper fuse. " technology electric device technical energy machine electronics utility action Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading