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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pennies
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
count
▪ If you are in the market for a change of car, count your pennies and go shopping.
▪ Removed from the box and counted, the pennies still add up to 11.
save
▪ Wassail, wassail, come buy our ale. Save your pennies and don't forget the Rennies.
▪ Compare the prices of whole and cut-up chickens, you can usually save pennies by cutting up whole birds.
▪ They could save their pennies as far as this one is concerned.
▪ They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
not have two pennies/halfpennies/beans to rub together
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Miss Billard handed out our savings books every Wednesday, so we could watch our pennies grow.
▪ My pitiful reward was usually a matter of pennies.
▪ New York Harbor is polluted only by pennies.
▪ Rubberneck knew only pennies, copper coins.
▪ Save your pennies and don't forget the Rennies.
▪ Simply fill a jar with spare coins - it's amazing how quickly the pennies grow.
▪ The caretaker charged a few pennies, and I wandered as I liked through the house.
▪ What else do you use pennies for?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pennies

Penny \Pen*ny\, n.; pl. Penniesor Pence. Pennies denotes the number of coins; pence the amount of pennies in value. [OE. peni, AS. penig, pening, pending; akin to D. penning, OHG. pfenning, pfenting, G. pfennig, Icel. penningr; of uncertain origin.]

  1. An English coin, formerly of copper, now of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius).

    Note: ``The chief Anglo-Saxon coin, and for a long period the only one, corresponded to the denarius of the Continent . . . [and was] called penny, denarius, or denier.''
    --R. S. Poole. The ancient silver penny was worth about three pence sterling (see Pennyweight). The old Scotch penny was only one twelfth the value of the English coin. In the United States the word penny is popularly used for cent.

  2. Any small sum or coin; a groat; a stiver.
    --Shak.

  3. Money, in general; as, to turn an honest penny.

    What penny hath Rome borne, What men provided, what munition sent?
    --Shak.

  4. (Script.) See Denarius.

    Penny cress (Bot.), an annual herb of the Mustard family, having round, flat pods like silver pennies ( Thlaspi arvense).
    --Dr. Prior.

    Penny dog (Zo["o]l.), a kind of shark found on the South coast of Britain: the tope.

    Penny father, a penurious person; a niggard. [Obs.]
    --Robinson (More's Utopia).

    Penny grass (Bot.), pennyroyal. [R.]

    Penny post, a post carrying a letter for a penny; also, a mail carrier.

    Penny wise, wise or prudent only in small matters; saving small sums while losing larger; -- used chiefly in the phrase, penny wise and pound foolish.

Wiktionary
pennies

alt. 1 (penny English) 2 An unspecified, but very small amount of money. (''It costs only pennies per day.'') n. 1 (penny English) 2 An unspecified, but very small amount of money. (''It costs only pennies per day.'')

Wikipedia
Pennies (digital charity box)

Pennies, the digital charity box is a micro-donation scheme in the United Kingdom, created by registered charity The Pennies Foundation. Its purpose is to raise funds for a variety of UK registered charities. The Daily Telegraph has described it as "a new channel for an old habit" that has adapted the shop counter charity box for the internet and card using generation.

Usage examples of "pennies".

We'll start it off with these new pennies and if mama gives us any spending money, we'll each put ten cents in every week.

Only then did he reach down in his pants pockets, haul up an old leather pouch tied with a wax string and count out old green pennies that looked like junk too.

She looked at her own five pennies realizing happily that they could be changed into a whole nickel.

Reckon out how much oil you saved and put its value in pennies in the bank.

After two songs, the fiddle and horn carried on alone while the drummer went around hat in hand ungraciously accept­ing the pennies doled out to him.

Any pennies thrown loose were considered fair game by the boys and they scrambled for them, picked them up and ran off down the street with an angry musi­cian after them.

It was some sort of code that made them agree as to whose pennies were whose.

When Neeley got bigger, he would play the hot­-hot (his name for an accordion) and she would bang a tambourine on the street and people would throw them pennies and they'd get rich and mama wouldn't have to work anymore.

And people would give them a lot of pennies and the monkey could eat with them and maybe sleep in her bed at night.

There the men worked as cigar­-makers and each chipped in a few pennies a day to hire a man to read to them while they worked.

One year when times were harder than usual and pennies could not be had, Francie and Neeley hoarded paper bags and on the day, filled them with water, twisted the tops shut and dropped them from the roof on to the street below.

She saw Punky Perkins, next to her in church, drop two buttons in the late in lieu of the two pennies his mother had given him.

He had to do this because he lived on the pennies of the youngsters and he didn't want to be boycotted.

Reading a page from those books every day and saving pennies in the tin-can bank isn't enough.

The golden pennies wrapped in the dream­like tissue were a never-tiring miracle.