pence
Pound's smaller parts
Pence is the plural of penny in British currency.
One hundred pence make a pound sterling: That'll be fifty pence, a few pence short.
The form appears in compound prices: a fifty-pence piece.
In American English, pennies is the standard plural, and pence sounds distinctly British.
Weight, strike, or kennel
- sterlingPure silver alloy
- shillingFormer British monetary unit
- farthingQuarter-penny coin
- tuppenceTwo old pence
florin · guinea · sovereign · crown · half-crown · quid · bob · decimalisation
Reddish-brown metallic element
- coinageInvented term or currency
- mintingProducing official currency
- denominationNamed religious group
- changeTo make different
circulation · numismatics · collecting · metallic · piggybank · jingling
pound
Weight, strike, or kennel
tuppence · florin · guinea · sovereign · crown · half-crown · quid · bob · decimalisation · Britain
copper
Reddish-brown metallic element
- coinageInvented term or currency
- mintingProducing official currency
- denominationNamed religious group
change · circulation · numismatics · collecting · metallic · piggybank · jingling
cheap
Low in price
- affordableReasonably priced
- bargainFavorable purchase price
- pittanceInsultingly small payment
trifling · meagre · nominal · insignificant · cost · price · worth
- penny candyInexpensive single-piece confections
- worth every pennyJustifying its full cost
- penny arcadesCoin-operated game establishments
- penny pincherExcessively frugal person
- pretty pennySubstantial amount of money
- pinch penniesSpend as little as possible
spend, penny, expense, pension, compensate, pennies, pendant, dispense, recompense