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pence

/pəns/

Meanings

noun

便士

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, sweets cost only a few pence each." "
实行十进制之前,糖果每个只需几便士。