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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tenner
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For a tenner, I snapped up a dinner-jacket for an office party, and gave it back afterwards.
▪ Grey Wig pushed a tenner in.
▪ I only spent a tenner all week.
▪ Income: Lend us a tenner?
▪ Look at the temptation: a pill that will give you euphoria and energy all night long for less than a tenner.
▪ The Feedback tenner will go to whoever suggests the best sponsored name.
▪ There's one on now: for less than a tenner anyone can have a four point safety check.
Wiktionary
tenner

n. (context informal English) A monetary note (gloss: bill) whose face value is ten basic units of currency. Originally, it referred to 10 shilling (half pound) notes.

WordNet
tenner
  1. n. the cardinal number that is the sum of nine and one; the base of the decimal system [syn: ten, 10, X, decade]

  2. a United States bill worth 10 dollars [syn: ten dollar bill]

Usage examples of "tenner".

The march from Gravabagalinien had taken the best part of a tenner, first over the loess farmlands then across wild country.

It showed in pictorial form the rising and setting times of the two suns, Batalix and Freyr, as well as the divisions of the year, the 100 seconds in a minute, the forty minutes in an hour, the twenty-five hours in a day, the eight days in a week, the six weeks in a tenner, and the ten tenners in a year of four hundred and eighty days.

At twenty-five years and a tenner or two, he was still a young man, but lines marked his powerful face, giving him an appearance of wisdom his enemies claimed he did not possess.

She was twelve years and a tenner, not much more than a child: yet a tension in her gestures made her seem much older.

The rear face also had two hands, the outer indicating the week, tenner, and season of the small year, and the inner the season of the Great Year.

Both men and mounts were more gaunt than when they had set out from Isturiacha, almost half a tenner earlier.

It might take a tenner before the ice would bear a platoon of soldiers.

The height of the cell was 240 centimetres, cor- responding to the six weeks of a tenner times the forty minutes of the hour, or to five times the six weeks times the eight days in a week.

Muntras had made his last trip a tenner and a half ago, at the time of the Battle of the Cosgatt - only it had proved not to be his last trip, since Div needed further instruction.

An earlier six prototypes, tested half a tenner previously, had all failed to work.

Before another tenner passed, King JandolAnganol was armed with Sibornalese matchlocks -weapons supplied not by his allies in Pannoval or Oldorando, not forged by his own armourers, but brought by devious routes as a gift from those who were his enemies.

Eight days in a week, six weeks in a tenner, ten tenners in a year of four hundred and eighty days.

We never question why a tenner is called a tenner, because there are ten of them in a year.

Before another tenner passed, King JandolAnganol was armed with Sibornalese matchlocks - weapons supplied not by his allies in Pannoval or Oldorando, not forged by his own armourers, but brought by devious routes as a gift from those who were his enemies.

She found Paul Tenner safe and comfortable, right enough, but he was far from being flat on his back and well-sedated.