Synonym: cent, centime. Similar words: penny stock, penny-pinching, pennant, pen name, pennies, openness, penniless, canny. Meaning: ['penɪ] n. 1. 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.
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211 If you could, you would have turned that family away without a penny.
212 Delegates in Jakarta were urged to get full value out of every penny spent, especially in the current economic climate.
213 Now they are two a penny - or rather they were until 1990.
214 Not a penny: a judge rejects a paralysed woman's claim for damages.
215 A baby girl died in Norfolk after choking on a penny.
216 Participants met once a week at Penny Scaggs' home or at one of several Austin churches.
217 It will be published by Heinemann, edited by Penny Hoare, and the backlist will appear in Mandarin.
218 Have each pair average the number of drops the penny holds.
219 Put another way, there is no longer the incentive to economise on every spare pound and penny in order buy interest-earning assets.
220 Smart public managers spend every penny of every line item, whether they need to or not.
221 We bought the necklace from an old man who was down on his luck and in need of a penny or two.
222 A doubling of the set-aside rate is not good news, coming at a time when every penny counts.
223 I placed the parcels on the table and Mrs Lewis gave me a piece of cake and a penny.
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224 For instance, what if Bozo, Inc., suffers through a recession and earns just one penny?
225 Labour has failed to build a popular consensus around educational reform and was trumped by Ashdown's penny on income tax.
226 Penny sat on a stone bench in the middle of the cavern to rest.
227 Our prizes give you the chance to be penny foolish for once.
228 We charged a penny for admission and two cents a cup for Kool-Aid.
229 Mrs Halloran was yard monitor and her penny loafers were next to him.
230 I was living with Desmond and I used to have to give him every goddamn penny.
231 They were worth every penny of the large chunk of the Hochhauser budget they absorbed.
232 His father was a rickshaw puller, so every penny the family had was laboriously earned.
233 In addition, the increase in national insurance contributions is the equivalent of a penny in the pound on income tax.
234 My warmest wishes to everyone in the family, and a special hug for Penny.
235 She thought Robin must sleep in this bed with Penny, curled around her protectively as you would sleep with a kitten.
236 Oh yes, she had plenty of money of her own, but he wouldn't touch a penny of that.
237 The penny farthing made its first appearance in 1870 and was ridden round the world in 1884.
238 Penny jumped out of the way to avoid being hit by the falling branch.
239 Corbett gave a child a penny to hold the horses and they went into the priest's house.
240 My father was a mean old man who resented every penny he spent on us.