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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pence
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ten pence/50-cent etc piece
▪ Have you change for a 50-cent piece?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
piece
▪ This done by placing a 50 pence piece in a ticket dispensing machine.
▪ They usually give him a 20 pence piece and he heads straight for the bar to buy his favourite ready-salted snack.
▪ I've just swallowed fifteen ten pence pieces!
■ VERB
close
▪ On the London Stock Exchange yesterday, Forte shares rose seven pence, to close at 351 pence.
▪ Granada shares lost six pence, to close at 637 pence.
▪ On the London exchange, they closed at 80 pence, down 4 pence.
▪ Shares in Granada closed 6 pence lower at 637p, after falling as much as 24p to 619p earlier.
cost
▪ It costs 95 pence a copy and will be available in supermarkets.
▪ Curing the problem at the design stage may only involve the addition of a component costing a few pence.
▪ They cost about 50 pence each to make, but sell for an average of £12.99.
▪ Last year Mr Baber's plums cost just twenty five pence per pound.
▪ The magazine costs 20 pence and supply your own staples.
fall
▪ Earnings per share fell 27.9% to 4.4 pence.
▪ Wireless's share price fell 1 pence to 457.
▪ Earnings per share fell 4.6% to 3.7 pence reflecting the increased number of shares issued following the flotation.
▪ Shares of Dixons fell 14 pence, or 3. 3 percent, to 410p following the release of first half earnings.
▪ Earnings per share fell 85.1% to 1.3 pence.
▪ Earnings per share fell 35.9% to 6.6 pence.
▪ Granada shares fell three pence to 642 pence.
pay
▪ Boys were paid eight pence a day.
▪ The master was paid 2 pence per week and he had four unpaid helpers.
▪ For example homeworkers in the East Midlands were paid 3.5 pence for straightening before packing a dozen tights.
▪ I was paid a few pence, and very welcome it was too.
rise
▪ On the London exchange, they rose 5 pence to 82 pence.
▪ This does not translate into earnings per share, however, which rose 11.3% to 17.7 pence.
▪ On the London Stock Exchange yesterday, Forte shares rose seven pence, to close at 351 pence.
▪ The cost of short-stay parking - for up to two hours - will rise by five pence.
▪ The share prices rose to 57 pence on the news, giving Gresham a market capitalisation of some £17m.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Earnings per share rose by 173.8% to 30.2 pence.
▪ Granada shares fell three pence to 642 pence.
▪ One full course of treatment costs as little as 5 pence, and can save a life.
▪ Price 30.9.86; the price in pence of the shares on the date specified.
▪ Shares rose as much as 8. 5 pence to 192. 5p, their highest since Dec. 3, 1991.
▪ The artist receives 88 pence, the producer and publisher another 88 between them.
▪ The dividend was boosted 11 percent to 2. 7 pence a share from 2. 43 pence a year ago.
▪ Wireless's share price fell 5 pence to 453.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pence

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.

Pence

Pence \Pence\, n., pl. of Penny. See Penny.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pence

late 14c., contraction of penies, collective plural of penny. Spelling with -ce reflects the voiceless pronunciation.

Wiktionary
pence

n. (context British English) (penny nodot=1 English) (the sub-unit of the pound sterling).

WordNet
penny
  1. n. a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound

  2. a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit [syn: cent, centime]

  3. [also: pence (pl)]

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Pence (disambiguation)

Pence is a plural of penny, a coin or unit of currency.

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Usage examples of "pence".

After some argument, haggling, and suggestions of violence, he produced bow, quiver, and arrows for eight pence.

In the meane season this minion lover cast his wife on the bottome of the tub and had his pleasure with her over his head, and as he was in the middest of his pastime, hee turned his head on this side and that side, finding fault with this and with that, till as they had both ended their businesse, when as he delivered seaven pence for the tub, and caused the good man himselfe to carry it on his backe againe to his Inne.

He that his hand will put in this mittain, He shall have multiplying of his grain, When he hath sowen, be it wheat or oats, So that he offer pence, or elles groats.

And, chatter, hop, skip, they were sent, In a buzz of young company glee, Their natural music, swift shoal To the next easy shedders of pence.

April 24th, nurse was payd for Rowland all her wagis tyll Monday the 22 of this month, 16 pence a weke: she had all her candell and sope before.

The mancus was equated with thirty pence, probably from the time of its introduction.

In fact, I once computed that it would be possible to spend four and a half years visiting them all without spending a pence, without overstaying a welcome, and without imposing on the same relative twice.

The next day I was carryed to the market to be sold, and my price was set at seaven pence more then Philebus gave for me.

The grace of God is like a bullion mass of purest gold, and then Jesus Christ is the great ingot of that gold, and then Moses, and David, and Isaiah, and Hosea, and Paul, and Peter, and John are the inspired artists who have commission to take both bullion and ingot, and out of them to cut, and beat, and smelt, and shape, and stamp, and superscribe the promises, and then to issue the promises to pass current in the market of salvation like so many shekels, and pounds, and pence, and farthings, and mites, as the case may be.

Once, the records show, Adams was fined three shillings, nine pence for absence from college longer than the time allowed for vacation or by permission.

Michaelmas, some barley and two hens at Martinmas, either a lamb or two pence at Easter, and a pig for the right to keep his herd in the forest, where they lived on the acorns and beechmast.

As I was getting near the Ponte del Paglia I saw the same masked woman attentively looking at some wonderful monster shewn for a few pence.

There was a poore Gardener amongst the rest, which bought me for the summe of fifty pence, which seemed to him a great price, but he thought to gayne it againe by the continuall travell of my body.

Diana was curled up in a chair, reading, taking no notice at all of Deirdre, got up as fine as five pence and pacing the drawing room floor in a splendid temper.

Larkin, Esq., The Lodge, Gylingden, announcing the fact that he had overdrawn his account certain pounds, shillings, and pence, and inviting him forthwith to restore the balance.